Sara Grace Stasi
1 min readFeb 14, 2020

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When I think about love poems, e.e. cummings always comes to mind:

somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
E. E. Cummings — 1894–1962

somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
any experience,your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near

your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully,mysteriously)her first rose

or if your wish be to close me,i and
my life will shut very beautifully,suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility:whose texture
compels me with the colour of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands

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also, Asphodel, That Greeny Flower which I’m still working to understand but it is a breathtaking piece W.C. Willams wrote at the end of his life and is directed toward his wife.

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Sara Grace Stasi
Sara Grace Stasi

Written by Sara Grace Stasi

Poems, short fiction, photography, musings on life. Santa Cruz, California. BA American Lit | BA Anthropology | MA Education. Patreon: sgstasi

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