Cummings is my favorite poet, just ahead of Edna St. Vincent Millay. I once had a student whose learning difference prevented her from understanding the use of punctuation. When she discovered e.e. cummings, she spent a week communing with him through his work and came out the other side with a smile, a fantastic research paper, and a little more self confidence. I am so grateful I got to watch that, and so grateful I got to know her.
i thank you god for most this amazing
i thank You God for most this amazing day
for the leaping greenly spirits of treesand a blue true dream of sky
and for everythingwhich is natural which is infinite which is yes
(i who have died am alive again today,and this is the sun's birthday
this is the birthday of life and of love and wings
and of the gaygreat happening illimitably earth)
how should tasting touching hearing seeing breathing any
--lifted from the noof allnothing--
human merely being doubt unimaginable You?
(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)
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