We must translate what is tense

into peaceful outcomes that will ripple back

to foreign origins, not wishing to know the name

for what happened or why we connived at it,

only that all points are equidistant and pleased,

and part of summer, the part of you that got on with it.

                                                                    John Ashbery                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Parallel Movement of the Hands