somewhere i have never travelled

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 color 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 than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain, has such small hands

~e. e. cummings

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-I'm from California, but I'm attending university at BYU in Utah.
-I miss my brothers constantly: all four of them.
-Mostly I just work my butt off to get A's.
-When I do have free time, I read or draw, but lately that's been happening less and less...
-I love the feeling of sand beneath my feet as I walk down the beach.
-No other smell compares to that of my father's garage.
-I have a very eclectic group of friends, however the one thing they have in common is the ability to hold an intelligent conversation.
-That's about it.

Feel free to introduce yourself. Good topic of conversation: where you live, what you like to do, poetry, weather, good books you've read recently, favorite movies, school or your job, etc.

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