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
From “Spring is like a perhaps hand” by E. E. Cummings
Contemporary Poems for Spring:
“Cherry blossoms” by Toi Derricotte
I went down to…
“Instructions on Not Giving Up” by Ada Limón
More than the fuchsia funnels breaking out…
“Ode to Spring” by Frederick Seidel
I can only find words for...
“I Have This Way of Being” by Jamaal May
I have this, and this isn’t a mouth…
“A Blessing” by James Wright
Just off the highway to Rochester, Minnesota...
“In the Memphis Airport” by Timothy Steele
Above the concourse, from a beam...
“Spring is like a perhaps hand” by E. E. Cummings
Spring is like a perhaps hand...
“Spring Snow” by Arthur Sze
A spring snow coincides with plum blossoms....
“Springing” by Marie Ponsot
In a skiff on a sunrisen lake we are watchers....
“Butterfly Catcher” by Tina Cane
In the Sixties...
“Morning News” by Marilyn Hacker
Spring wafts up the smell of bus exhaust, of bread...
“National Poetry Month” by Elaine Equi
When a poem / speaks by itself,...
“Diary [Surface]” by Rachel Zucker
Spring is not so very promising as it is the thing...
“Another Attempt at Rescue” by M. L. Smoker
And to think I had just paid a cousin twenty dollars to shovel the walk...
“Birds Again” by Jim Harrison
A secret came a week ago though I already...
“If a Wilderness” by Carl Phillips
Then spring came...
“Black Petal” by Li-Young Lee
I never claimed night fathered me...