Like a long wave, like a roll of heavy waters, he went over me, his devastating presence—dragging me open, laying bare the pebbles on the shore of my soul.

“I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said.But he never liked an…”

“This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This …”

“All looked distant and peaceful and strange. The shore seemed refined, far away…”

“I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise u…”