tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post5667780245598891337..comments2024-03-28T14:53:38.827-04:00Comments on BLCKDGRD: the goat-footed balloonMan, Born 122 Years Ago TodayUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-32890946266863548462016-10-14T21:05:39.724-04:002016-10-14T21:05:39.724-04:00As ever, nothing to add in the presence of Just En...As ever, nothing to add in the presence of Just Enough, And The Good, Words.Mongo, At The Momenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00973606827337262084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-49849087584259350622016-10-14T10:45:09.731-04:002016-10-14T10:45:09.731-04:001) is the lack of space after commas and parenthes...1) is the lack of space after commas and parentheses - exemplified in <b>[my sonnet is a light goes on in]</b>, <i>supra</i> - part of cummings' intended orthography?<br /><br />2) perhaps my favorite poem by him - not necessarily his "best" - is "i sing of olaf"<br /><br /><br />3)my ex-sister-in-law's mother would recite the first verse of one of his poems as a table blessing:<br /><br /><b>i thank You God for most this amazing<br />day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees<br />and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything<br />which is natural which is infinite which is yes<br /><br /></b><br /><br />just now i have found the rest of it<br /><br /><b>(i who have died am alive again today,<br />and this is the sun’s birthday; this is the birth<br />day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay<br />great happening illimitably earth)<br /><br />how should tasting touching hearing seeing<br />breathing any -lifted from the no<br />of all nothing- human merely being<br />doubt unimaginable You?<br /><br />(now the ears of my ears awake and<br />now the eyes of my eyes are opened)<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></b>mistah charley, ph.d.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06303695341246058680noreply@blogger.com