Drager, Lindsey

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Fishladder: A Student Journal of Art and WritingVolume 4Issue 1 Spring 2006 Article 2610-18-2011last night I danced with ee cummingsLindsey DragerFollow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/fishladderThis Article is brought to you for free and open access by ScholarWorks@GVSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Fishladder: A Student Journal ofArt and Writing by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@GVSU. For more information, please contact scholarworks@gvsu.edu.Recommended CitationDrager, Lindsey (2006) "last night I danced with ee cummings," Fishladder: A Student Journal of Art and Writing: Vol. 4: Iss. 1, Article26.Available at: http://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/fishladder/vol4/iss1/2662 Lindsey Drager last night I danced with ee cummings last night I danced with ee cummings and we remembered (bits of teeth be tween my ash) what it was like to be human - i swam in his parenthetical Arms and was pierced by his punet. U. ation. he fixed me a gin and tonic coerced me into singing his lyric?s (you are a song said she please come along said he) and we ate the stars. i sank deep into him riding on his metaphors (caIIoused fingers ink for_get_me_nots yes, my hands are smaller than the rain) And he lounged with me in the spacesbetween the words .we stole the secrets of the Dawn. Last night, like no night before, i loved the man and not the words i loved the paint and not the por;trait i (lay his poems a doll a he a bee a she ing) horizontally like the lines of i. did. i. did. we danced within his l(aleaffalls)onely prose 

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