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once like a spark... (XXIV)

© Edward Estlin Cummings

(once like a spark)if strangers meet
life begins-
not poor not rich
(only aware)

if there are any heavens my mother will

© Edward Estlin Cummings

if there are any heavens my mother will(all by herself)have
one. It will not be a pansy heaven nor
a fragile heaven of lilies-of-the-valley but
it will be a heaven of blackred roses

Spring is like a perhaps hand

© Edward Estlin Cummings

IIISpring is like a perhaps hand
(which comes carefully
out of Nowhere)arranging
a window,into which people look(while

a light Out

© Edward Estlin Cummings

--who therefor Thee(once and once only,Queen
among centuries universes between
Who out of deeplyness rose to undeath)

my father moved through dooms of love

© Edward Estlin Cummings

my father moved through dooms of love
through sames of am through haves of give,
singing each morning out of each night
my father moved through depths of height

enter no

© Edward Estlin Cummings

enter no(silence is the blood whose flesh
is singing)silence:but unsinging. In
spectral such hugest how hush,one

voices to voices,lip to lip... (XXXIII)

© Edward Estlin Cummings

voices to voices,lip to lip
i swear(to noone everyone)constitutes
undying;or whatever this and that petal confutes...
to exist being a peculiar form of sleep

if I should sleep with a lady called death

© Edward Estlin Cummings

if I should sleep with a lady called death
get another man with firmer lips
to take your new mouth in his teeth
(hips pumping pleasure into hips).

when god lets my body beFrom each brave eye shall sprout a tree
fruit dangles therefromthe purpled world will dance upon
Between my lips which did singa rose shall beget the spring
that maidens whom passions wasteswill lay between their little breasts

hate blows a bubble of despair into

© Edward Estlin Cummings

hate blows a bubble of despair into
hugeness world system universe and bang
-fear buries a tomorrow under woe
and up comes yesterday most green and young

flotsam and jetsam

© Edward Estlin Cummings

flotsam and jetsam
are gentlemen poeds
urseappeal netsam
our spinsters and coeds)

listen... (III)

© Edward Estlin Cummings

listen
beloved
i dreamed
it appeared that you thought to

!blac... (1)

© Edward Estlin Cummings

!blac
k
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supposing i dreamed this)... (IX)

© Edward Estlin Cummings

supposing i dreamed this)
only imagine,when day has thrilled
you are a house around which
i am a wind-

all ignorance toboggans into know

all ignorance toboggans into know
and trudges up to ignorance again:
but winter's not forever,even snow
melts;and if spring should spoil the game,what then?

moan... (7)

moan
(is)
ing

buy me an ounce and i'll sell you a pound.

buy me an ounce and i'll sell you a pound.
Turn
gert
(spin!

Fame Speaks

Stand forth,John Keats! On earth thou knew'st me not;
Steadfast through all the storms of passion,thou,
True to thy muse,and virgin to thy vow;
Resigned,if name with ashes were forgot,

but the other

but the other
day i was passing a certain
gate rain
fell as it will

my mind is... (XXV)

my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing which touch and taste and smell
and hearing and sight keep hitting and chipping with sharp fatal
tools