Her skin was a rich black that would have peeled like a plum if snagged, but then no one would have thought of getting close enough to Mrs. Flowers to ruffle her dress, let alone snag her skin.
No man told her that her skirt snagged on a nail.
He writes with great fluency and is the least self-consciously obscure of poets: you don't find yourself snagged on a word that has spent most of its life slumbering in a dictionary.
I got snagged, found myself stuck on a facility gutter, and squatted there like an airy gargoyle.
