Little Air I

Whatsoever a solitude
Sans the swan nor the quay
Sights its desuetude
In the look I abdicated

Here vainglory
High as not to be touched
Many a sky thence coloring
With the golds of sunset

But coasts languorous
As white linen doffed
Some flighty bird if plunges
Exultantly close-off

In the wave become you
Your jubilation nude.

 

 Stéphane Mallarmé