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 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