For the Second Annual Brigid in Cyberspace Poetry Reading

This poem is so cheerful and bright. It's like how the boys are when I release them from the house and let them go and get all rambunctious outside. Happy almost-springtime to us. Apparently it's going to be an early spring.


in just-

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

whistles       far       and wee

and eddieandbill 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