the syntax of things

i have always paid attention to the syntax of things: to the orderly arrangement of words in a sentence, sentences in a paragraph... Even my habitual use of the ellipsis represents an attempt to bring openness to a closure, or at least to mark it, pin it down, give it a shape and a name.

Perhaps there comes a point in every life when all those paragraphs have to turn to forests of ellipses, springing up fresh and green and untamed in a verdant flourishing of broken syntax.


since feeling is first

since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;

wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world

my blood approves,
and kisses are a better fate
than wisdom
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 each other:then
laugh,leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph

And death i think is no parenthesis


e.e. cummings
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