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 far 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 eachother: then

laugh, leaning back in my arms

for life's not a paragraph

 

And death i think is no parenthesis

eecummings

 

Butchart Gardens, Vancouver Island

Done