i like my body when it is with your





i like my body when it is with your
body.  It is so quite new a thing.
Muscles better and nerves more.
i like your body.  i like what it does,
i like its hows.  i like to feel the spine
of your body and its bones, and the trembling
-firm-smooth ness and which i will
again and again and again
kiss,  i like kissing this and that of you,
i like, slowly stroking the, shocking fuzz
of your electric fur, and what-is-it comes
over parting flesh… And eyes big love-crumbs,

and possibly i like the thrill

of under me you so quite new
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Submitted by exon33 on June 30, 2022

Modified on March 28, 2023

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Scheme ABACXBDXECFF D E
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 535
Words 113
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 12, 1, 1

i like my body when it is with your

from Allpoetry.com: e.e. cummings 1894-1962 • Ranked #8 in the top 500 poets One of the most popular poets of the 20th century, his verses have inspired countless readers. His total body of work includes nearly 3,000 poems. He preferred his name abbreviated in all lowercase letters. The son of Edward Cummings, a Unitarian minister of the South Congregational Church in Boston, and Rebecca Haswell Clarke. Cummings's mother encouraged him from an early age to write verse and to keep a journal. He was educated at the Cambridge Latin School and at Harvard College, where in 1915 he received his A.B., graduating magna cum laude in Greek and English; he received his M.A. from Harvard in 1916. more…

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