I Carry Your Heart with Me

Georges Barbier, "Spectre de la Rose"

Georges Barbier, “Spectre de la Rose”

Spiritual Sunday

Today Julia and I are spending our wedding anniversary apart as I am in Tennessee visiting my mother. I therefore send this e. e. cummings poem out to her. Although it’s not directly related to Pentecost Sunday, which we celebrate today, it’s not altogether unrelated either. I met Julia 42 year ago and felt a deep love flow through me such as I had never before known. I didn’t speak in tongues but the world seemed brighter and sharper.

Notice how, in the poem, cummings eliminates some of the spaces between words and punctuation,emphasizing closeness. It doesn’t matter that Julia and I are separated(well, it matters some)because “i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart).” Happy anniversary,my dear.

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
                                                      i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
 
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart
 
i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

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