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E. E. Cummings(1894–1962)

Spring is like a perhaps hand

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.