http://mulberryfairy4 Aug 2003

Yeah, well I'm not unshaven for nothing. It had to be either a "frenzied" or "quivering" victim.

The peel versus peal debate continues in my head. Peal is a loud sound or to make a loud sound, but Peel could mean both the peeling of a layer of the tires and, to "peel off" means to veer away, depart, or leave. I think that the meaning that is most relevant to my poem (though I have no idea how it is spelled in popular usage) is the loud noise that the (frenzied, quivering) narrator's tires made as she squealed out of the driveway, so I will leave it as peal for now.