why did you go

why did you go by Edward Estlin Cummings

First published in Seven Poems in 1920, in The Dial magazine.

why did you go

little fourpaws?

you forgot to shut

your big eyes.

where did you go?

like little kittens

are all the leaves

which open in the rain.

little kittens who

are called spring,

is what we stroke

maybe asleep?

do you know? or maybe did

something go away

ever so quietly

when we weren't looking.

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