Wednesday, July 26, 2006

since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;

wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world

my blood approves,
and kisses are a better fate
than wisdom
i swear by all flowers. Don't cry
--the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids' flutter which says

we are for each other: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph

And death i think is no parenthesis



e.e. cummings

1 Comments:

At 10:30 AM, Blogger katy said...

love this poem? no, you haven't. i am a huge e.e. cummings fan, for he writes such fabulous poems and he is one of the few who gets how lovely little letters are.

 

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