Monday, November 13, 2006

ee cummings "i have found what you are like"

i have found what you are like
the rain,

(Who feathers frightened fields
with the superior dust-of-sleep. wields

easily the pale club of the wind
and swirled justly souls of flower strike

the air in utterable coolness

deeds of green thrilling light
with thinned

newfragile yellows

lurch and.press

-in the woods
which
stutter
and

sing

And the coolness of your smile is
stirringofbirds between my arms;but
i should rather than anything
have(almost when hugeness will shut
quietly)almost,
your kiss

3 comments:

JavaBomberman said...

ah, prose. yes... prose.

Poke said...

E. E. Cummings... ugh. No punctuation or capitalization. That's not a revolutionary Idea for poetry, that's an E-Mail.


And yes, the mention of his name strikes a nerve... a silly, useless nerve.

Anonymous said...

Heh, see, I like Cumming's style. I think I'm too much of a grammar Nazi to do it myself, but it frees up the flow of a lot of the work that might be hindered by punctuation. Though I've never known why he didn't at least capitalize. It's almost more jarring NOT to see it.