[NON BLOG] A Poem for Valentine's Day

[rfmcdonald]

e.e. cummings, "i like my body when it is with your"
i like my body when it is with your
body. It is so quite new a thing.
Muscles better and nerves more.
i like your body. i like what it does,
i like its hows. i like to feel the spine
of your body and its bones, and the trembling
-firm-smooth ness and which i will
again and again and again
kiss, i like kissing this and that of you,
i like, slowly stroking the, shocking fuzz
of your electric furr, and what-is-it comes
over parting flesh....And eyes big love-crumbs,

and possibly i like the thrill

of under me you so quite new

- Originally published in "Sonnets Actualities XXIV," & (New York: privately printed, 1925): 116. First publication date: 14 February 1925.