{
  "title": "FOUR VII",
  "first_line": "since feeling is first",
  "text": "since feeling is first\nwho pays any attention\nto the syntax of things\nwill never wholly kiss you;\n\nwholly to be a fool\nwhile Spring is in the world\n\nmy blood approves,\nand kisses are a better fate\nthan wisdom\nlady i swear by all flowers.  Don’t cry\n—the best gesture of my brain is less than\nyour eyelids’ flutter which says\n\nwe are for each other:then\nlaugh,leaning back in my arms\nfor life’s not a paragraph\n\nAnd death i think is no parenthesis",
  "slug": "four-vii",
  "description": "since feeling is first",
  "seo_title": "since feeling is first",
  "seo_description": "A poem by E. E. Cummings in “is 5”",
  "html_url": "https://cummings.ee/book/is-5/poem/four-vii/",
  "json_url": "https://cummings.ee/book/is-5/poem/four-vii.json",
  "txt_url": "https://cummings.ee/book/is-5/poem/four-vii.txt"
}