“The sky is darkening like a stainSomething is going to fall like rainAnd it won't be flowers”
“...God sometimes sends flowers -but I like it best when he darkens the sky and lights up an infinitude of worlds...”
“The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.”
“It was like we had known all along that the sky was going to fall and then it fell and we pretended to be surprised.”
“The Montana sunset lay between the mountains like a giant bruise from which darkened arteries spread across a poisoned sky.”
“Fireflies winked, and the darkening bay breathed and sighed like a great dolphin and the thin pure curve of a young moon hung in the green sky...”