"(To those who gave their lives to England during the Battle of Britain and left such a shining example to us who foll…"

"We laid him in a cool and shadowed grove One evening in the dreamy scent of thyme Where leaves were green, and whispe…"

"Alarms clang as a radarman tracks an attack craft that can jam radar and dart past flak at half a Mach: ack-ack-ack, …"

"Whenever Helen sleeps, her fevered rest meekens her; hence, she re-emerges enfeebled — her strength, expended; her re…"

"Lightning blinks, striking things in its midst with blinding light. Whirlwinds whirl; driftwinds drift. Spindrift is …"

"Loops on bold fonts now form lots of words for books. Books form cocoons of comfort – tombs to hold bookworms. Profs …"

"Duluth dump trucks lurch, pull U-turns. Such trucks dump much undug turf: clunk, clunk — thud. [...] Such pumps suck …"

"The cruel girls we loved Are over forty. Their subtle daughters Have stolen their beauty; And with a blue stare Of co…"

"I don’t believe that we could exist with one foot in two worlds. We have to be able to synthesize and be part of what…"

"one of the questions that I had in my writing was not so much about how to reorganize the material, but also how to w…"