Balloon Dreams

We tied aortas to Chinese lanterns, children
crunching leaves, waves crashing secrets.
Standing each in sight of the other, the sky
sucked a firefly into . yesterday . Marine

biologists met in San Diego to discuss the
meaning of your hands. They touched on
your lips, before a debate on the evolutionary
advantage of the common periwinkle

as five MIT grads met to decode a newly
discovered ancient hieroglyph. Palm trees
clapped, waves over whistle. Your heart in
a conk shell tumbled, whorl and spire
over lip.

About e.e. cummings

e.e. cummings, American poet, painter and playwright known for his playful use of language, (lack of) capitalization, format, and punctuation. At his death in 1962, he was the most widely read poet in the United States secondary to Robert Frost.