e.e. cummings, Poem 92 (of 95)

i carry your heart with me ( i carry it in
my heart) i am never without it (anywhere
you go, my dear, and whatever is done
by only me, is your doing, my darling)

i fear
no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want
no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has meant
and whatever a son will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret, nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide),
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)

"You do not come
On this moonless night.
I wake wanting you.
My breasts heave and blaze.
My heart burns up."

-Ono No Komachi

The Love Poems of Marichiko

The Love Poems of Marichiko were originally published as if they had been written by a young Japanese woman and Rexroth had merely translated them. In reality there was no such person as Marichiko — the poems were all written by Rexroth himself, projecting himself into a feminine persona, during the same period that he was translating several volumes of Chinese and Japanese women poets.

"Making love with you
Is like drinking sea water.
The more I drink
The thirstier I become,
Until nothing can slake my thirst
But to drink the entire sea. "

-Marichiko

Eating on the shore in Staten Island.

Peaches- farmers market in University Park.

View from Clare's roof-patio, Spanish Harlem, NYC.

"Summer" -Thomas Dewing, 1890

"Just when the caterpillar thought the world over, it became a butterfly."

-Anonymous

"I've been trying so hard to become an idea."

-Matthew Sadler, (Glen Arbor) Michigan poet