whorling

Dish in hand, dripping bubbles of whorling spring colors I watch, breathing in a day unhampered by panes, loose and free as the sunlight, the sweet scent of a grassfire.

Father and Child 2010

The ice was blown up into tiny peaks, whorling patterns where the water blew east and east until the cold stopped it.

Impossible Things Before Breakfast yuki_onna 2007

Anticipation that grew with every sweep of his fingertips, every whorling caress, until her nerves were tight, and anticipation edged into desire, and desire became edged with need.

A Lady of His Own Laurens, Stephanie 2004

Or maybe it started before Nancy, maybe it grew outward from the shell collector himself, the way a shell grows, spiraling upward from the inside, whorling around its inhabitant, all the while being worn down by the weathers of the sea.

The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002

The course of his life was diving into its reverse spiral by now, into that dark, whorling aperture.

The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002

The course of his life was diving into its reverse spiral by now, into that dark, whorling aperture.

The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002

Or maybe it started before Nancy, maybe it grew outward from the shell collector himself, the way a shell grows, spiraling upward from the inside, whorling around its inhabitant, all the while being worn down by the weathers of the sea.

The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002

The course of his life was diving into its reverse spiral by now, into that dark, whorling aperture.

The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002

What schoolgirls, what Americans to let that carp go, its fins dappling the surface of the river, lazy, ugly, wandering into the whorling depths of city current.

The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002

What schoolgirls, what Americans to let that carp go, its fins dappling the surface of the river, lazy, ugly, wandering into the whorling depths of city current.

The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002