Sport 33: Spring 2005
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ii.
the ice looks like leaf litter, like roughcast
on the walls of the kauri villa roughly worked
up, the dense blue shadow and white
of pressure ridges that meet like clenched fists
over a card table, clouds that replicate the ice
and vice versa, O constant mirror,
fantastical theatrics, an elegant display
of miniatures, human apparatus in a white cabinet