when gods let my body be

by: e.e. cummings (1894-1962)

HEN god lets my body be

 

From each brave eye shall sprout a tree

fruit that dangles therefrom

 

the purpled world will dance upon

Between my lips which did sing

 

a rose shall beget the spring

that maidens whom passion wastes

 

will lay between their little breasts

My strong fingers beneath the snow

 

Into strenuous birds shall go

my love walking in the grass

 

their wings will touch with her face

and all the while shall my heart be

 

With the bulge and nuzzle of the sea

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