<i>'<b>Crickle</b>, crackle, hiss, and sparkle; flickering flames, fighting forest flurries,
lick and ignite, in turn, moss, bark, twigs,
sticks, and logs, sending sizzling spurts of steam skedaddling.</i>
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John Hamshare (1940 - ): quoted, with permission, from the Masterful Sentences course www.writersvillage.com
2009