Its second canto tells of a (+) geology field trip on which theauthor fell in love with his eventual wife, Sybil, and says "She may not be a beauty, but she's cute" before the icy lake death of his daughter, (*) Hazel.
This poem uses the image of "TV's giant paperclip" from its author's earlierpoem The Swing in describing his garden among "the svelte/ stilettos of a frozenstillicide". This poem's third section abbreviates Institute of Preparation for theHereafter as "Iph". Its second canto tells of a (+) geology field trip on which theauthor fell in love with his eventual wife, Sybil, and says "She may not be a beauty, but she's cute" before the icy lake death of his daughter, (*) Hazel. This poem's use of the word "gradual" arguably refers to Jakob Gradus, a would-be Zemblan assassin. The couplet of this poem's final line is completed by the first line, "I was the shadow of the waxwing slain". For ten points, name this 999-line John Shade poem commented on by Charles Kinbote in an eponymous novel by Vladimir Nabokov.
This poem uses the image of "TV's giant paperclip" from its author's earlierpoem The Swing in describing his garden among "the svelte/ stilettos of a frozenstillicide".
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