bosem

Updated: June 22, 2025

And I wondered as I looked down on it, whether the great heart of the water wuz constant; if it ever heaved up into deep sithes a thinkin' of the one who had passed away, of them who once rested lightly on her bosem, bathed their dark forwards and read the meanin' of the heavens, in the moon and stars reflected there. I don't know as she remembered 'em, and Josiah don't.

Marietta Holley - Samantha at Saratoga