![]() And the long yolk of summer / breaks over her, on the car, on me, on everything." Images such as "the long yolk of summer" may tend to divide Salom's readers. ![]() The last lines of Enigmatic Beauty illustrate Alterword's predominant tone. ![]() It may be no coincidence that both these poems take place in cars. Somewhere in the middle are poems such as Enigmatic Beauty and Driving into Dawn, in which seemingly personal episodes are lent a sort of metaphysical luminosity, as if they are simultaneously both in and out of this world. Others, like Point of View, in the sequence Shots, are almost sardonic anecdotes. Many of the poems are energetically rhetorical, at times risking opacity. ![]() Philip Salom's Sky Poems, The Well Mouth, Afterworld. ![]()
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