As they drive away from the encounter with Satima, Omar praises her to the tautly frustrated Abdelkrim, who vents his sexual frustration by shooting off his machine gun at a tuft of grass rising between two graceful and womanly shaped dunes.
Here, between the peeling steel girders of the Willis Avenue and Robert F. Kennedy Bridges, Mychal Johnson, a lithe, goateed and good-humored Mott Haven resident and community board member, sweeps his arms at grass rising waist-high out of rail pilings, and at the massive green wall of a waste plant.
By Philip Levine The New Yorker, December 10 , 2001P. 95 The new grass rising in the hills, View Article Philip Levine began contributing poems to the magazine in 1958, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1995 for his collection "The Simple Truth".
Weeds sprouted up through the crannies in the otherwise grand staircase, and in spots the grass rose four feet.
Several minutes into our conversation, one of the younger men, who'd been mutely worrying at a piece of grass, rose and abruptly stalked off.
Or on a summer evening when, after a warm rain, fireflies flicker under trees, the scent of grass rises up and wet clouds part over an oil-painted sunset.
But mostly there were sweeping grasslands punctuated by termite mounds and spreading acacia trees and smoke rising through the grass-roofs of conical houses, the highlands blue in the distance.
A unique species of feral horse, a little stunted from dining on salt marsh grasses, rose hips, bayberry twigs, thorny greenbrier stems, poison ivy, seaweed and other forage, the ponies now roam two sides of one national preserve -- the Maryland herd in the Assateague Island National Seashore and the Virginia herd in the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge.
A unique species of feral horse, a little stunted from dining on salt marsh grasses, rose hips, bayberry twigs, thorny greenbrier stems, poison ivy, seaweed and other forage, the ponies now roam two sides of one national preserve — the Maryland herd in the Assateague Island National Seashore, the Virginia herd in the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge.
My neighbor collects for his cows in winter, and returns a second time and a third as new grass rises.
But such a real-life metropolis of glass, steel and grass is rising on the western coast of South Korea, 40 miles from Seoul, on 1,500 acres of landfill that just a few years ago was water.
