-- for Vladimir Nabokov
someone should build monuments to running water,
sing jewelry to its Siberian quicksilver,
melt diamonds and cast sculptures to its blaze.
someone should make a shrine of words:
call running water lingual, soul-colored, brittle,
mercury-skeined.
a monolith of glass should be erected to
celebrate its combed surface
i
could spangle an obelisk.
