maaa-maa

Updated: June 14, 2025

There are even times, after he's been hugging my knees or perhaps stroking my cheek with his little velvet hands and murmuring "Maaa-maa!" in his small and bird-like coo, when he will suddenly turn savage and try to bite my patella or pull my ear out by the root. Most of this cruelty, I think, is born of a sheer excess of animal spirits. But not all of it.

Arthur Stringer - The Prairie Mother