At the Saturday, April 7, 2012 gathering of the Baltimore Poetry Discussion Group; the works of E.E. Cummings was discussed. His poems don't appear to be titled, but my work is a derivative of the following:

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With poems like this, it was one of the more quieter discussions as E.E. Cummings material had a factor of intimidation about it, as one struggles with the words of the poem and how he presented them visually. He reminded me of my favorite member, Miluska (Mila) who intimidated me so much at first, I refused to review her, but remained a poetic Peeping Tom in her life. Wanting to at least knock on her door, I literally taped up her poems on a wall at work, where I can digest them a bit. Looking at them drove me crazy as what value is a poem talking about something like; coffee, chocolate or table grapes? "It could mean this, or it could mean that.." With Mila, I found the charm and art form with the double, triple and quadruple entendre'.

I think E.E. Cummings did the same, but instead of using phrase of imagery, he used grammar and splitting up the words. I did recommend to the discussion group that they should have handed out the Cummings material last month to give us a chance to digest it.

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