"I will be strong! then let the billows roll Far o'er my head--they cannot hurt my soul; Deeper the swell, the higher …"

"The landscape, like a painted picture shone, Lined as an atlas in the window frame,In form, in character, for aye the…"

"Foolish, foolish Edith Sitwell sang a solo of her auntie, her rich auntie and her trumpet, such a trumpet as old ladi…"

"During periods of creative work she lived in another world."

"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 …"

"As an 'allocated Canadian' (for the National Women's Soccer League) I got to list three cities that I wanted to play …"