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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 always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skillfully,mysteriously)her first rose

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;

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 forecer with each breathing

(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
                               --E.E. Cummings,
Complete Poems, 1904-1962
4/19: Week 4 is up and I've updated her growth chart.  I should get weeks 5 & 6 up soon.
I'm writing the a weekly journal of Ella's First Year of Life.  This is the place to go to see the most recent photos & to read about current developments.  I'm trying to post something for each week.
You can see Ella's on-line announcement page, with her first photos and her birth stats, by clicking on that adorable face to the left.
To go to David's academic web page
Ole Mistah Clemens here will take you to
David's academic web page over at the
Longwood College server.
Ella's already growing faster than a Tigger can get stuck in a tree.  Here's a growth chart with weights & lengths from birth up to her last doctor's appointment.
If you'd like to see what Ella looked like before she was born, check out the sonogram pics here.
Those little toes will lead you to our Baby Materiel page, where you can get info about our choices on crib, bedding, stroller, and all the other paraphernalia that has apparently become essential to raising little 'uns these days.
The chain links, as you guessed, will take you to our page of links.
Those shadow lovers will take you to info & pics of 'Da Parents.
You are guest number to visit since 9/22/00.
Got any feedback on this page?  Drop me a line at dmorgen@longwood.lwc.edu.