ABRUPTO

24.5.09


EARLY MORNING BLOGS

1560 - Butterfly Catcher

In the Sixties
Nabokov switched

from ink to eraser-
topped pencil

on index cards a box
of cards for Ada a box

of cards for dreams
whose "curious features"

include "erotic tenderness
and heart-rending enchantment"

in one draft
he traded "stillness and heat"

for "silence, a burning"
******************* so picture:

Vladimir seated
at the trunk of a tree

a spring day
at Wellesley where

he marvels at his students
and their cable-knit socks

the way each elastic
grips without binding

just below
the knee******so exquisite

an application of pressure
that when said sock

is slowly
peeled off

the skin shows
no trace at all

(Tina Cane)

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