Not even the rain can make me you as wet
as fingers of one of my hands
when I touch you, obeying commands
that your feelings for me, you say, can beget
when gazing intensely at you I unclose
both your eyes, and I kiss you and say
that I love you and want you to stay
together with me, and we metamorphose
when your lie in my arms and embrace me once more,
as you did in the spring of our passion,
when it seemed that the rain with compassion
would drench us forever, not ceasing to pour.
Inspired while watching Woody Allen’s movie “Hannah and Her Sisters, in which Lee, Lee, played by Barbara Hershey, reads e. e. cummings’ poem “nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands” in bed after Elliot, played by Michael Caine, buys her a copy in a funky bookshop to which she has taken him.
6/24/09
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem