A B C you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens e. cummings Apple Blossoms Cascade Down Effortlessly: tumbling downwards (when we shake the branches in the spring) Falling Gently (into my girlfriend’s open arms) Heaps (of them falling) Into (her open) Joyful (arms) Killing (seriousness, and any hope of political discussion;) Laughing Merrily (we wander over to N-O- where in Particular; ) Quietly Repeating (Soft nothings: all these white petals) slipping, Tumbling (floating,…
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