for mini, a child of spring....

Spring is like a perhaps hand

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
and inch of air there) and

without breaking anything.


e.e. cummings