Spring is like a perhaps hand / E.E. Cummings

         III

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.

~~

E.E. Cummings (1894-1962)

from &, 1925

[Poem is in the public domain in Canada]

E.E. Cummings biography