greyly

The interior of the kitchen we now saw greyly for the first time.

Dazzling young people frolic in the surf of Ibiza, but they have never watched a spring tide reawaken the greyly brooding wildfowl shore at Parkgate.

The ambulance starts up and takes Cher off across the night, and Pigeon walks away, fading greyly into the crowds of the fair, where, except for the ice-cream van, and the police around it, everything slowly begins to speed and scream again as the rides quicken and beat once more under the moving lights, sped on by brusque, tumbleweed fairmen, with cash-belts at their waists and home strapped, like this fair, to their travelling backs.

It's left me wiser, left me older, But without tanned marks shading my shoulder Summer's brightness and light is what we all love Not damp dense clouds stacked greyly above.

Like many grown women, I remember the film version of The Princess Bride from middle-school sleepovers: late-night Oreos glomming greyly on the roof of my mouth, some girl's chiffon bedspread.