If There Are Any Heavens My Mother
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)
If There Are Any Heavens My Mother - meaning Summary
Mother's Private Heaven
Cummings imagines a personal, intimate heaven created by and for his mother. He rejects fragile or conventional floral paradises, instead picturing a vivid garden of black-red roses where the father stands like a rose—deep, tall, and quietly reverent. The scene blends human and floral imagery so that faces and eyes become petals, culminating in a tender gesture as figures and garden together bow in sunlight, honoring love and presence.
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