Fine line black tattoo of three small birds in flight above cursive script reading If you're a bird I'm a bird, on the inner wrist.

Three birds and script on a wrist

Fine line · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

Three small black birds fly in a loose diagonal line across the inner wrist, with a cursive script phrase arcing above them. The linework is fine and crisp, with the birds in solid black and the lettering in thin strokes. The photo is black and grey on pale skin, set against a soft-focus denim background.

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Dear Tom,

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The starlings came over the engine house again this evening, three of them ahead of the rest as if they'd been sent to fetch us. Mrs Pascoe says it means rain, but she says that about everything with wings. I stood on the back step with the kettle going cold and counted them until the dusk took the last one.

The shift bell went at six, and I know you were already below by then, forty fathoms down with the pump rods and the smell of wet rock. I did not tell you on Sunday that the doctor came to look at Eleanor's chest. I did not want it in your pocket with the candle ends. She is mending. She asked for you twice and then asked whether the birds could come in through the window, which I said they could not, because she is nine and has your stubbornness.

I have been thinking about what you said at the stile, that a man who goes underground is only a bird with the sky taken off him. I told you that was foolish talk, and I still think so. But I have pinned your bit of blue ribbon to the nail above the bed, and it lifts every time the door opens, like something trying to get free.

Come up on the Thursday cage when you can, and bring your tin. The kettle is on, and the birds are coming back over.

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