John Ashbery: “The Skaters”

II-I

	though ?
	Not for long now. And {now} they too collapse
	Giving, as they pass away, the impression of a bluff
	Its craggy headlands outlined in sparks, Its top crowned with a zigzag
	Of grass and shrubs, pebbled beach at the bottom, with flat sea                   glides ?
	Holding a few horizontal lines. Then this vision, too, {passes slowly} {slowly passes} away.