Gapemouthed

While the rock world seemed generally gapemouthed by the tragedy and the country crowd descended to knee-jerk jingoism, blues artists tried to put the whole horrible business in some sort of perspective.

One showed a gapemouthed cluster of little folks watching a magician pull a white rabbit from a hat.

Every time I talk to a woman about some things I am left gapemouthed and wishing terribly that I had a large dog with a heavily callused butt.

Standing on the big chair, she stuffed them into that gapemouthed fish.

There are no more gapemouthed crocuses, or poppies wide with woe to wreath her fingers; the earth is a hunched and sightless woman, holding herself together with her hair.

Abreast of the first soldier, he too took in the round collar and halted gapemouthed.