Fine line black wave with the words let it be in script on a woman's ankle, with a thin chain anklet, on a sunlit wooden boardwalk.

Wave and script ankle tattoo

Fine line · Ankle · Black and grey · Photo

A bare foot and ankle rest on a wooden boardwalk, with a thin chain anklet above the ankle bone. A single black wave line curls across the ankle and flows into cursive script reading let it be. The linework is thin and even, and the ink is solid black against the skin, with sunlight and green trees blurred in the background.

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Dear Auntie Marion, the post boat came in early this week, so you'll have the news before the gulls get to it. The kettle on Inishfarran has been broken since March, and Mr Dunphy says the new element won't arrive until the ferry does, which means never. I have been boiling water in the big copper pan like a witch in a fairy tale, and Father says it tastes of pennies, but he drinks three cups anyway.

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You asked in your last letter whether I was still cross about the boat. I am not. I went down to the slipway this morning to watch the tide turn, and the water came up over the stones in long grey folds, each one curling white at the top and then flattening out to nothing against the rocks. I stood there with my shoes in my hand and thought of what you told me when I was small, that the sea never hurries and never stops, it only comes back. Father says that is a sentimental thing for a grown woman to think. I told him he could go and say it to the sea himself.

The chain on the cupboard door came loose again, so the wind keeps swinging it into the wall, tap, tap, tap, all night. I used to lie awake counting it. Lately I have stopped counting and let it go on. There is nothing to be done about the chain, the kettle, or the ferry, so I am learning to leave them be.

Write back soon, and tell me whether the rain has finally stopped on the mainland. Your loving niece, Cass.

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