“Life is lumpy. And a lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat, and a lump in a breast are not the same lump. One should learn the difference.”
“A poem begins with a lump in the throat”
“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
“I won't forget,” he whispered, and I swallowed the lump in my throat.”
“...poking a lump of red Jello that jiggles outrageously, like a breast I once knew. ”
“Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.”