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 Contents | March 2004 More on poetry from The Atlantic Monthly. |
The Diamond Cutter
by Thomas Lux .....  Hear the author read this poem (in RealAudio)Through the loupe or peepstone it's there: a mini- dot of air and, when light shines through the object, the gletz is visible, via microscope, x-ray scope. It's a flaw, diminishing an object: when light, unimpeded, passes through it, the object's brilliance is most brilliant. A gletz affects clarity, affects merit. It's best if no gletz can be found at all. The gletz's place matters—higher up: bad news, lower: less-bad news. They indicate fragility, these breathless, cell-sized cells where two inmates are locked and each has a knife.
Thomas Lux's new book, The Cradle Place, in which this poem appears, will be published this month. Copyright © 2004 by The Atlantic Monthly Group. All rights reserved. The Atlantic Monthly; March 2004; The Diamond Cutter; Volume 293, No. 2; 62. |
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