"When the world is mud-luscious..." Days 119-123

Spring can thunderstorm rainbows as well as bloom flowers. But my photograph may look as odd and abstract as the grammar and the poetry of e.e. cummings.

   cummings, however, was a genius.

[in Just-]

BY E. E. CUMMINGS

in Just-

spring          when the world is mud-

luscious the little

lame balloonman

 

whistles          far          and wee

 

and eddieandbill come

running from marbles and

piracies and it's

spring

 

when the world is puddle-wonderful

 

the queer

old balloonman whistles

far          and             wee

and bettyandisbel come dancing

 

from hop-scotch and jump-rope and

 

it's

spring

and

 

         the

 

                  goat-footed

 

balloonMan          whistles

far

and

wee

 

   Every spring since I encountered this poem a half century ago has been "mud-lucisous" and "puddle-wonderful." And every spring that "goat-footed balloon man whistles far and wee" and so do I.  

 

    Thank you, ee. 

 

-Erie Chapman

Photograph - "The Spring of Raining Rainbows" 2018, by Erie