bridle-fingers

Updated: February 4, 2025

They are good to remember when the wrist has lost its power and the bridle-fingers stiffen, and they are clear with a mystic clearness, the elders say, when one is passing to the ghosts. It was such a morning when I stood in the doorway of the old waggon-maker's house. The light was driving the white fogs into the north.

Melville Davisson Post - Dwellers in the Hills