Spring is like a perhaps hand

e. e. cummings

E. E. Cummings’ poem “Spring is like a perhaps hand” was originally published as “&: Seven Poems III” in Cummings’ 1925 self-published collection “&”.

Edward Estlin Cummings was born on 14 October 1894 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US, and he died on 3 September 1962 in Madison, New Hampshire, US, at the age of 67.

A poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright, Cummings is often regarded as one of the most important American poets of the 20th century and is associated with modernist free-form poetry. He wrote approximately 2,900 poems, two autobiographical novels, four plays, and several essays. Much of his work has idiosyncratic syntax and uses lowercase spellings for poetic expression.

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Posted: 2 May 2023
Word length: 62
Video length: 1:36

Spring is like a perhaps hand (which comes carefully out of Nowhere)arranging a window,into which people look(while people stare arranging and changing placing carefully there a strange thing and a known thing here)and

changing everything carefully

spring is like a perhaps Hand in a window (carefully to and fro moving New and Old things,while people stare carefully moving a perhaps fraction of flower here placing an inch of air there)and

without breaking anything.

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