spume

The style Matthiessen conjures is almost visual, with fragments of scene description and lines of unattributed dialogue arranged on the page like solitary brushstrokes or like breakers of spume on the open sea.

She covers these turbid, hot-colored grounds with those deft black lines and smudges, plus airbrushed spumes of white or red, and also multicolored halftone dots that form a bridge between image and information.

For tens of minutes on a quarantined Thursday night, I spumed.

I watched the spumes of snow spiraling upward from the nearest peak.

When a juggernaut passed the other way, it slapped up spumes onto the streaming windscreen.