Spring

Just because the equinox occured without controversy and I went to a baseball game (see Beck's Balls) yesterday, and the Utes beat BYU all to celebrate spring I feel the need to post my favorite spring poem. Though I must say I was a girl who prefered (and still do) "marbles and piracies" to "hop-scotch and jump-rope."

'In Just-'

in Just-
spring when the world is mud-
luscious the little
lame balloonman

whistles far and wee

and eddieandbill come
running from marbles and
piracies and it's
spring

when the world is puddle-wonderful

the queer
old balloonman whistles
far and wee
and bettyandisbel come dancing

from hop-scotch and jump-rope and

it's
spring
and
the

goat-footed

balloonMan whistles
far
and
wee

-- e. e. cummings