in Just-spring

What probably keeps the world from being hijacked by the melancholy of intellectuals are its ordinary people. The world's sanity is upheld by people who haven't watched the movies and haven't attended Harvard. - Richard Fernandez

in Just-
spring       when the world is mud-
luscious the little lame baloonman 

whistles       far       and wee 

and eddyandbill come 

running from marbles and 

piracies and it's 

spring 

when the world is puddle-wonderful 


the queer 

old baloonman whistles 

far       and       wee 

and bettyandisbel come dancing 

from hop-scotch and jump-rope and 

it's 

spring 

and 

the 

goat-footed 


baloonMan       whistles 

far 

and 

wee

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Pictures from the indispensible Signs of Spring - The Big Picture - Boston.com

Poem by the indispensible ee cummings who, among many other things said:

"listen: there's a hell
of a good universe next door; let's go"

At least for the afternoon. I'm outta here...

I'm going out to clean the pasture spring;
I'll only stop to rake the leaves away
(And wait to watch the water clear, I may):
I sha'n't be gone long. You come too.
-- Robert Frost: The Pasture

Posted by Vanderleun at March 23, 2009 12:12 PM