The sound, abrasive at first, became comforting as it enclosed me.
The buzzing came from inside me and also enclosed me like the darkness and the warmth of the night.
"Far better for me to remain within the aura in which your brother enclosed me," she wrote.
I turned and went in that direction, and suddenly the smell that used to be all around 237th and Broadway enclosed me.
"My passion for Goethe, along with the rest of my education, enclosed me in a complete circle full of solid moral values that I have preserved throughout my life," she wrote.
The low tent-tunnel of the laurel walk where no one but a child can stand today, encloses me but keeps the world in view in sudden supple leaps and starts of light.
Unchecked, my 7-year-old's frail gestures could enclose me, and her fragility had the power to paralyze me.
I looked up the poem, Viva [W], the next day, A few more lines jumped out at me. in your most frail gesture are things that enclose me.
Now, more than 60 years after its publication and nearly a year-and-a-half after Mailer's death, the idea of collecting my thoughts about him would enclose me in my own time machine and take me back to the America of my youth.
So enclosing let me share with you a poem I wrote to my son entitled "Special".
