e.e.cummings



since feeling is first

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


And death i think is no parenthesis
a wind has blown the rain away and blown

a wind has blown the rain away and blown
the sky away and all the leaves away,
and the trees stand. I think i too have known
autumn too long


(and what have you to say,
wind wind wind--did you love somebody
and have you the petal of somewhere in your heart
pinched from dumb summer?
O crazy daddy
of death dance cruelly for us and start
the last leaf whirling in the final brain
of air!)Let us as we have seen see
doom's integration..........a wind has blown the rain


away and the leaves and the sky and the
trees stand:
the trees stand. The trees,
suddenly wait against the moon's face.