Monday, June 27, 2011

Dear Marianela,

I hope you read this, because my phone is, as usual, out of service, and I want to say that those poems are wonderful. I'm posting "since feeling is first" here, so it'll be more easily accessible for me in the future. Thank you for showing them to me.

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 the 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