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I don't like ee cummings, generally.

somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
any experience,your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near

your slightest look will easily unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully,mysteriously)her first rose

or if your wish be to close me, i and
my life will shut very beautifully ,suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility:whose texture
compels me with the color of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands

e.e. cummings

Date: 2006-02-02 05:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wik.livejournal.com
Yeah, those sorts of snippet-thoughts really attach well to me. Maybe it's just my ADD brain, but I can really soak in his poetry better than most.

Date: 2006-02-03 01:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] greenstorm.livejournal.com
That's likely it.

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