Thanks, Marybeth. To set the matter, er, straight, Mew was a lesbian. She burned most of her poems, most likely the ones with the dangerous pronouns. In the poems she saved, she adopted a male persona. There's no doubt her life was very hard - hard as ice.
Yes, hard as ice - and the skates are like her pen, inscribing the ice.
[This message has been edited by Mary Meriam (edited December 19, 2007).]
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