“At home I have a blue piano, / I, who cannot play a note. / It stands in the gloom of the cellar door, / now that the whole world has grown coarse…”

“When she raised her eyes, she turned red. Two eyes were watching her. They were Heathcliff’s eyes. Green, slightly slanting and focused on her…”

“It was hot and sticky out. The sun had come up too fast. It took us half an hour to complete the first half-circle…”

“Our mother didn’t step, she skimmed. At great speed, in a total silence that split the balanced quiet of the street in two.”

“Yemenites from the transit camp came to my grandfather’s house / sat and kept silent / while one sang the other waited…”