114. Skaters. John Gould Fletcher. Modern American Poetry

Louis Untermeyer, ed. (1885–1977). Modern American Poetry. 1919.

John Gould Fletcher. 1886–

114. The Skaters

BLACK swallows swooping or gliding
In a flurry of entangled loops and curves;
The skaters skim over the frozen river.
And the grinding click of their skates as they impinge upon the surface,
Is like the brushing together of thin wing-tips of silver.	5