National Poetry Month/and it's spring

in Just-
spring when the world is mud-
luscious the little lame baloonman


whistles far and wee


and eddyandbill come
running from marbles and
piracies and it's
spring


when the world is puddle-wonderful


the queer
old baloonman whistles
far and wee
and bettyandisbel come dancing


from hop-scotch and jump-rope and


it's
spring
and
the
goat-footed


baloonman whistles
far
and
wee


e.e. cummings


Hear e.e. cummings reading the poem

An old calligraphic version of the poem done with a multicolor colored pencil. I remember how thrilled I was with that pencil.