e e cummings

e e cummings [We Too Were Children, Mr. Barrie]

from e e cummings’s Complete Poems:

Chansons Innocentes [excerpt]

I

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