On Feb 24, 2010, at 4:05 PM, Alexey Sklyarenko wrote:

People have thought she tried to cross the lake

At Lochan Neck where zesty skaters crossed

From Exe to Wye on days of special frost.

CK: Could zesty skaters be an anagram in Russian (Alexey)?

I don't think it is an anagram. In her (unrhymed) translation of the poem Vera Nabokov renders zesty skaters as azartnye kon'kobezhtsy.

Dear AleXeY,

I still don't know what if any meaning there is to it, but there is definitely something odd and alphabetical

(W, X, Y, Z) going on here: ZestY SK[X] aters cross(X)ing from eXe to WYe.

NY Lora C

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