Helping Hands

DATE: Mar 3, 2006   PHOTOGRAPHER: Lorelei

TIGERLILY SAYS: “

somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence: in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near

your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully,mysteriously) her first rose

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain, has such small hands

--e.e. cummings

special thanks to bombshell betty and wendy blackburn for lending a hand.”