Poem for the Times: 'i thank You God for most this amazing'

Tom McCarthy recommends e.e. cummings' 'i thank You God for most this amazing'.







i  thank  You  God for most  this amazing
day  for the leaping  greenly spirits  of  trees
and a blue true dream  of sky, and for everything
which  is natural  which is infinite  which is yes

(i  who have died  am  alive  again today
and  this  is the sun’s  birthday,  this  is the  birth
day  of  life and of  love and wings; and the  gay
great happening illimitably  earth)

how  should  tasting  touching  hearing  seeing
breathing  any  --- lifted from the  no 
of all nothing --- human  merely  being
doubt  unimaginable  You?

(now  the  ears of my ears  awake  and
now the eyes  of  my  eyes  are  opened)

                                                                             e.e. cummings

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