Mud-luscious

Okay, okay, I know it's not a play or a playwright, but since our founder is a poet, can I just celebrate spring by posting this here? And, is there a better word than 'mud-luscious'?! If there is, tell me what it is. No, wait...don't.

[in Just-] 
by e. e. cummings

in Just-
spring          when the world is mud-
luscious the little
lame balloonman

whistles          far          and wee

and eddieandbill come
running from marbles and
piracies and it's
spring

when the world is puddle-wonderful

the queer
old balloonman whistles
far          and             wee
and bettyandisbel come dancing

from hop-scotch and jump-rope and

it's
spring
and

         the

                  goat-footed

balloonMan          whistles
far
and
wee