Back of a woman's neck, partly hidden by her hair, showing a black geometric band of triangles tattooed at the nape.

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Triangle band tattoo on the nape of the neck

Geometric · Neck · Black and grey · Photo

A woman is seen from behind with her dark red hair tied up, showing a row of black triangles set within a horizontal band at the nape of her neck. The triangles are solid and shaded in black and grey, with some lighter tones suggesting fine shading or light reflecting on the skin. The subject sits in a car, with the tattoo filling the centre of the frame and the background softly out of focus.

Geometric Neck Triangle Band Geometric pattern

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The frost had got into the top rail again by the time Dad came out with the flask, and he stood at the gate counting the ridges of the far field the way he always did, out loud, as if the hills might slip off without him. Seven, he said. Seven peaks of stubble and snow between us and the Carrow road, each one the same height as the last, which is why he liked them. A thing that behaved could be trusted to fall the same way twice.

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I had been sent to fetch the ewes off the top pasture before the light went, and I did it badly, letting the gate swing and losing two to the hedge. The dog did the rest. By the time I got back the sun was a flat coin on the barn roof, and the barn roof was the thing Grandad had built from sawn oak forty years before, a sawtooth of points he swore would shed snow better than any pitch. It didn't. It held the snow in small triangular pockets, and every winter he climbed up with a shovel and cursed them.

That evening he showed me a drawing he had made on the back of a feed invoice, a row of triangles stacked along a band, and went through the sums: each point a quarter turn of the shovel, each band a day's work. He had worked out how many winters the roof would last if somebody kept clearing it. Nobody had. The drawing was folded in his coat pocket when we buried him in March, and I found it there, the paper gone soft as cloth along the creases.

I take it out now when the wind drops and the ridges of the far field go blue. Seven peaks. I count them aloud, the way he did, and the number comes out the same every time, which is about the only comfort the farm has ever really offered.