No, not a description of your faithful blogger, but a quick approximation to the love poem of the day, e e cumming's since feeling is first. This is nothing like as simple and easy as it looks, and I am thrilled by cummings' skill. And see the Donne (next week) in "I swear by all the flowers", and the cosmic importance of "your eyelids' flutter"!
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
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