If They Have Spoken Across Me
If They Have Spoken Across Me
By Joshua Chalifour
Suppose fields without any wind
are as indubitable as I am.
Who wanders in these mountains
and touches the ideas from sunset?
A capable lady with a green disguise
touches, who slender and renewed,
is otherwise not unalive.
Clumsiest at flowers beneath
the sunset (if they were)
the lady, bright with world,
eyes the roses and any
being which moves fragility.
Who do you reason, sir, will stumble
imminently to things?
Do hills without a wind appear different?
Because I,
said this person who in green dress—
Yes, the indecision of you
and the reason why the wind
and a blossom touch,
were at my mind.
The wind is a Lady with
By E. E. Cummings 1
1 Edward E. Cummings, “The Wind Is a Lady With,” in A Selection of Poems, A Harvest Book Poetry (San Diego: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1965).
the wind is a Lady with
bright slender eyes(who
moves)at sunset
and who—touches—the
hills without any reason
(i have spoken with this
indubitable and green person “Are
You the Wind?” “Yes” “why do you touch flowers
as if they were unalive,as
if They were ideas?” “because,sir
things which in my mind blossom will
stumble beneath a clumsiest disguise,appear
capable of fragility and indecision
—do not suppose these
without any reason and otherwise
roses and mountains
different from the i am who wanders
imminently across the renewed world”
to me said the)wind being A lady in a green
dress,who;touches:the fields
(at sunset)