newly-bruised

Updated: May 31, 2025

She thought all women were like the matron who came with a visitor up to the bare room, where we played without toys the new, dirty, newly-bruised ones of us, and the old, clean, healing ones of us and said, 'Here, chicks, is a lady who's come to see you. Tell her how happy you are here. Then Mag's freckled little face, her finger in her mouth, looked up like this.

Miriam Michelson - In the Bishop's Carriage