Boneset
Nabokov was also a lepidopterist. The Pyracmon brown, the Karner blue wide open on its pin: splays like the zhe of his native language.
I too am transfixed by bisection.
Boneset. Clasped halves,
so closely joined, appear as one.
On a map Cunningham Pond is an arrowhead. From its bank a mute extent of fractured green: a foliage hinge.
Each leaf rent and restored.
Boneset. Stem like an abdomen.
Green water split by a long pale dive.
