sloeblack

“When the narrator describes the predawn port, his words take on the same lilting motion as "the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea.”

The Wall Street Journal: A Gloriously Musical Play for Voices

“It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters'-and-rabbits 'wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea.”

Cast On

“I prefer to think of the sloe eyes of romantic heroines, or of Dylan Thomas’s sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea’.”

Simon & Schuster: Wildwood