I'm not the folk tune said the princess
her head in her jeweled hands.
not even the broidered kerchief
...
spelling the things that drift away
I learned that the
leaves were leaving; there's
...
it's in the quality of the falling snows
and I cry from my knees
who is the King of all this delicacy;
...
I have wandered in white kingdoms
where the bleached lights
lingered
...
I will traverse this winter distance
I will not forget
your white wonders
...
every sentence is a train of pearl
gliding into whiter distances-
where you will whisper in the
...
I kept Your carnelian word
every day in the street
that was never mine
...
there is no golden thread running through
there is no porch of flowers-
I have stood on the banks of a river
...
I went through your epochs
one by one:
blazing a circle, not
...
to e.e. cummings
brightness is brighter
gold on gold ever gathered
...