{"id":5,"date":"2005-03-08T03:08:32","date_gmt":"2005-03-08T07:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/omarsultanhaque\/2005\/03\/08\/ee-cummings\/"},"modified":"2005-03-08T03:08:32","modified_gmt":"2005-03-08T07:08:32","slug":"ee-cummings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/omarsultanhaque\/2005\/03\/08\/ee-cummings\/","title":{"rendered":"e.e. cummings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a24'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>somewhere i have never travelled<br \/>\n<P>somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence: in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near<br \/>\n<P>your slightest look easily will unclose me though i have closed myself as fingers, you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens (touching skilfully, mysteriously) her first rose<br \/>\n<P>or if your wish be to close me, i and my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly, as when the heart of this flower imagines the snow carefully everywhere descending;<br \/>\n<P>nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility: whose texture compels me with the colour of its countries, rendering death and forever with each breathing<br \/>\n<P>(i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses) nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands<br \/>\n<P>&#8212; e. e. cummings <\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>somewhere i have never travelled somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence: in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near your slightest look easily will unclose me though i have closed myself as fingers, you open [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1166,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/omarsultanhaque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/omarsultanhaque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/omarsultanhaque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/omarsultanhaque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/omarsultanhaque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/omarsultanhaque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/omarsultanhaque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/omarsultanhaque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/omarsultanhaque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}