Black and grey tattoo of three framed mountain landscapes with moons, a river and daisies, in dotwork shading, on the inner forearm.

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Three-panel mountain landscape on a forearm

Dotwork · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A forearm tattoo divided into three square panels, each showing mountains under a moon or sun, with a winding river in the middle panel and daisies along the bottom edges. The sky areas are filled in solid black, while the peaks and river are shaded with fine stippled dots and hatched lines. The image is a close, straight-on photograph against a plain white background, with the panels running the length of the arm.

Dotwork Blackwork Forearm Mountain Moon Sun River Daisy Flower Landscape

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Mae had the tiller under one arm and a flask wedged between her knees when the third lock keeper finally waved her through, and by then the light was already going out of the fields. The barge was called Patience, which her father had painted on the stern in letters he never once bothered to straighten. Above the reeds the hills stood in a row, grey as old pewter, and the moon had come up early over the first of them like someone who had been waiting all day to be noticed.

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The river bent here in a long S, pale where the water caught the sky and black where it ran under the willows. Her mother had drawn this stretch in pencil on the back of a seed packet the summer before she died: three squares side by side, mountains in each, a sun in one and moons in the others, daisies crowding the bottom edges because nothing looked honest without something small growing at its feet. Mae kept the packet in the tin with the ration cards. She had never seen the actual hills from the water. Tonight she counted them off as they slid past, the same shapes exactly, as if someone patient had copied the land out by hand.

Near the bend the towpath dog started barking at nothing, and a light flickered on the far bank, then went dark. She eased the tiller so the bow swung wide, letting the current carry them past the shallows where the old weir had split the river into threads. Somebody was walking the path with a lantern and not hurrying. Mae reached for the boathook without taking her eyes off the water.

When the lantern reached the mooring post it was only Tom from the lock cottage, holding up a thermos. "You left your mum's packet on the bench," he said. She laughed so hard she nearly lost the tiller, and the moon went on sitting over the hills exactly where her mother had put it.