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A Modern Poetry Library
John Ashbery:
The Skaters
[from
Rivers and Mountains
, 1966]
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[Page 47]
To refuse the square hive
,
postpone the highest
...
The apples are all getting tinted
In the cool light of autumn
.
The constellations are rising
In perfect order: Taurus, Leo Gemini.
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