"I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic!
I try to give that to people.
I misrepresent things to them.
I don't tell the truth; I tell what ought to be truth."
--T. Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire

16 March 2010

Can't Sleep

Posting here because it's 4 am and my final draws nearer...Need to distract my mind from the harsh reality of this day.

A pretty poem I've loved since junior high, by E.E. Cummings. Each stanza is so perfect.

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 then all roses)
Nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands