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Tom Bolt's "Dark ICE"
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EDNOTE. A sample of Tom Bolt's "Dark ICE" and link to whole text.
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tom bolt
I've stood on thinner sheets. Took crunching walks
On leaf-embodying and lumpy glass
To a sidewalk's abrupt end, along a bright
Section of newly-insulated path,
Over a prickling hump of weedy dam
And onto this broad opening in the words: lake,
Brown language adrift with plants and fish,
Masked underneath a civilizing white
Tectonic crystalline, a cloudy plate.
Sun burned horizon black, and then went down;
The honed air slipped and whisked across the lake.
Flare, pile of glassleaves! -- no -- fail, pyre...
a.. Originally published in BOMB magazine, Dark Ice, a poem mirroring / punning / parodying / hommaging Pale Fire, is now available on-line at the author's site. Very good, very funny, very moving -- please read all the footnotes.
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tom bolt
I've stood on thinner sheets. Took crunching walks
On leaf-embodying and lumpy glass
To a sidewalk's abrupt end, along a bright
Section of newly-insulated path,
Over a prickling hump of weedy dam
And onto this broad opening in the words: lake,
Brown language adrift with plants and fish,
Masked underneath a civilizing white
Tectonic crystalline, a cloudy plate.
Sun burned horizon black, and then went down;
The honed air slipped and whisked across the lake.
Flare, pile of glassleaves! -- no -- fail, pyre...
a.. Originally published in BOMB magazine, Dark Ice, a poem mirroring / punning / parodying / hommaging Pale Fire, is now available on-line at the author's site. Very good, very funny, very moving -- please read all the footnotes.
Previous | Index | Next
Nabokovilia | Home | Index | Books | Resources | Tributes | Contact | Shop
© 1999
Last Updated 9 August 1999
Created and Maintained by J.M. Martinez