1.

Edward Estlin Cummings
rode Buffalo Bill’s watersmooth-silver
                                                          stallion
into my high school English class in 1971
and broke onetwothreefourfive lightbulbsjustlikethat
                                                                                   over my head
he was a forceful man
and what i want to know is
how do you like your blueeyed boy
Mister Poet

2.

E. E. Cummings
whistled
the

goat-footed
balloonMan’s        tune
far
and
wee

in Just-
spring
and
      i heard
nothing but
the world as puddle-wonderful

3.

e. e. cummings cut the tops off
his capital letters and i

                                    stayed a little
                                                        person

l(a

le
af
fa
ll

s)
one
l

y

i never signed
                      my name
                                      the same
                                                    again