MAPPING THE CITY: DC Places, Part II Tom Lachman   THE INDOOR POND Wells Ice Rink, College Park, MD The ice is colder than the air, its vapor invisible on the red mouth of the black-clad lady skating in the smooth center where sunlight barely penetrates. Oblivious to the gaggle of kids skating a wobbly orbit around her, she figures in concentric precision, lean black arms embracing the taut torso as it descends and revolves, a black leg flicking out a steel blade that severs forced air, slices pale sunlight. The strong lithe body glides as if borrowed from memory, carrying as it does— crystal glass upon a silver tray— the ancient head, face masked snow-white, white wisps of hair clutching the scalp —the two-aged skater twirling toward a vanishing center.   Tom Lachman grew up in Laurel, MD, and now lives in Takoma Park. He has been awarded a fellowship at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and his poems have been published in The Pedestal, Delaware Poetry Review, Ghoti, and Euphony.   Published in Volume 11, Number 4, Fall 2010.