“Home is a boxcar and it's so far out of reachHidden under umbrella beach”
“you can't hide from a hurricane under a beach umbrella”
“... A wet night. They are going home together under an umbrella. They stop on the door to press their wet cheeks together.”
“Raymond stood as though someone might have just opened a beach umbrella in his bowels.”
“However strong the branch becomes, however far away it reaches round the home, out of sight of the vine, all its beauty and all its fruitfulness ever depend upon that one point of contact where it grows out of the vine. So be it with us too.”
“In a cement park across the street is this giant sculpture. It is a giant umbrella frame lying on its side. It's green. Stand under it, during a rainstorm, you'll still get wet - that's why it's art.”