The chilidium is not often visible in the dorsal valve of Billingsella but when seen proves to be an arch with its piers built against the notothyrial edge.

We must ask, first, whether our privacy — call it our distance or enclosedness or unknowability with respect to others — is elected or inevitable.

Why in ten thousand years scarce will the rain and storms lessen a mountain top by a span in thickness?

A lifeless lump, unfashioned, and unframed, / Of jarring seeds