life’s not a paragraph and death i think is no parenthesis

(excerpt)

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

by e e cummings (October 14, 1894 – September 3, 1962)
from Selected Poems, 2007
VIII The Dimensions of Being Human
1 since feeling is first
image – Boby Dimitrov

Tags: Death, Life
Posted in e. e. Cummings

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