John Ashbery: “The Skaters”

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	Heads in hands, waterfall of simplicity.
	The delta of living into everything.

The pump is busted. I shall have to have get it fixed.

	Your knotted hair
	Around your shoulders
	A shawl the color of the spectrum

Like that marvelous thing you haven't learned yet.

	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.

--John Ashbery