Oh Sweet Spontaneous Oh Sweet Spontaneous (listen to the whole album) The Carnation text by Francis Ponge opinionated contrast it to calm rounded flowers a stem tip breathing them in for se deboutonner and naturally everything is movement opening out of a pliable knob of leaves paper frill jabot beacon in a buttonhole at the tip of its slim green bamboo stem the stem of this magnificent hero     (video) at the tip of a vigorous stalk O rent into OE Oh sweet spontaneous (Cummings) the cambridge ladies (Cummings) when god lets my body be (Cummings) it may not always be so; and I say (Cummings) spring is like a perhaps hand (Cummings) memory hither come (Blake) the lamb (Blake) I had been hungry (Dickinson) improvisations on texts by Ponge, Cummings, Blake, and Dickinson The Carnation / other such music brianbrock.com