Since Feeling is fir

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 wisdaom
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 (1894-1962)