July 01, 2009

"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

e.e. cummings

3 comments:

Meredith said...

You know, I have ee cummings tattooed on my back. Got it a few years ago.

He's my soul mate.

Liz said...

This means that we are best friends!

Jessy Boudreaux said...

I've got ee cummings tattooed on my arm now. I love you guys.