GR translation: opening as they were moved into new white abyss

[Paul Mackin]

On 5/16/2012 2:34 AM, Mike Jing wrote:
> P153.23-30   Basher St. Blaise’s angel, miles beyond designating,
> rising over Lübeck that Palm Sunday with the poison-green domes
> underneath its feet, an obsessive crossflow of red tiles rushing up
> and down a thousand peaked roofs as the bombers banked and dived, the
> Baltic already lost in a pall of incendiary smoke behind, here was the
> Angel: ice crystals swept hissing away from the back edges of wings
> perilously deep, opening as they were moved into new white abyss. . .
> .
>
> Why are the wings described as "perilously deep"?  I assume these are
> the wings of the bombers, am I right?  What exactly is this "new white
> abyss"?  And I assume it is the ice crystals that are "opening", is
> that correct?
>

Maybe it would be the ice crystals that are perilously deep, meaning 
dangerously thick on the wings????

Is Basher St. Blaise's Angel interceding here, causing the ice crystals 
to detach themselves and zoom off into space (the white abyss)?

Just a few thoughts.

P