Friday, July 20, 2018

Hands in Poems: E.E. Cummings (II)



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 easily will 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 colour 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

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