Poetry and art - e.e. cummings and Picasso

Picasso... (XXIII) by e. e. cummings (1894-1962)

Picasso

you give us Things



which

bulge:grunting lungs pumped full of sharp thick mind

you make us shrill

presents always

shut in the sumptuous screech of

simplicity

Picasso, Le Rêve, 1932, óleo,
(130 × 97 cm)

(out of the

black unbunged

Something gushes vaguely a squeak of planes

or

between squeals of

Nothing grabbed with circular shrieking tightness

solid screams whisper.)

Lumberman of The Distinct                                                                 

your brain's

axe only chops hugest inherent

Trees of Ego, from

whose living and biggest

bodies lopped

of every

prettiness

you hew form truly