Xli Poems/Chanson innocente 1

by Edward Estlin Cummings

CHANSONS INNOCENTES I

why did you golittle fourpaws?you forgot to shutyour big eyes.

where did you go?like little kittensare all the leaveswhich open in the rain.

little kittens whoare called spring,is what we strokemaybe asleep?

do you know? or maybe didsomething go awayever so quietlywhen we weren't looking.