Sunday, January 08, 2012

my old friend e.e.

since feeling is first
e.e. cummings

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 far better fate
than wisdom
lady 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 eachother: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph

And death i think is no parenthesis

[e.e. surprised me on the page tonight
haven't seen him since Brazzaville
perhaps a reminder
the best gesture of my brain
is to forget good grammar and
proper punctuation
from time to time]

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