Nine Waterfall Poems

First published in Spring: The Journal of the E. E. Cummings Society #6, October 1997, page 106. I call these waterfall poems because of how the letters might be perceived as falling from a higher level to a lower level.



rain rain

rain rain



icon i icon ico

icon ico icon icon



vacant vac vacant va

vacant vacan vacant vacant



bladder bl bladder blad b

bladder bladd bladder bladder bladder



flame fla flame flame f

flame flam flam flame flame



libido libido libido libido libido

libid libi libid libi libido



together together together tog

tog toget together together



nightowl nightowl nightowl nigh

nightow nightow nightowl nightowl



vowel vow vowel vowe

vowel vowe vowel vowel