if there are any heavens my mother will(all by herself)have

if there are any heavens my mother will(all by herself)have
by e.e. cummings


if there are any heavens my mother will(all by herself)have
one.  It will not be a pansy heaven nor
a fragile heaven of lilies-of-the-valley but
it will be a heaven of blackred roses

my father will be(deep like a rose
tall like a rose)

standing near my

swaying over her
(silent)
with eyes which are really petals and see

nothing with the face of a poet really which
is a flower and not a face with
hands
which whisper
This is my beloved my

                       (suddenly in sunlight

he will bow,

&the whole garden will bow)