Spring is like a perhaps hand
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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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.