Few poets are recognizable from the shape of a poem before a reader has even reached the first line. E. E. Cummings is one of them. Words scatter across the page, punctuation appears where grammar books insist it should not, letters break apart or merge together, parentheses interrupt sentences, and familiar words suddenly behave like …
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May 11 2022
maggie and milly and molly and may
10 maggie and milly and molly and maywent down to the beach(to play one day) and maggie discovered a shell that sangso sweetly she couldn’t remember her troubles,and milly befriended a stranded starwhose rays five languid fingers were; and molly was chased by a horrible thingwhich raced sideways while blowing bubbles:and may came home with …
