two poems for today

the first---

let it go--- the
smashed word broken
open vow or
the oath cracked length
wise--- let it go it
was sworn to
                      go

let them go--- the truthful liars and
the false fair friends
and the boths and
neithers--- you must let them go they
were born
                 to go

let all go--- the
big small middling
tall bigger really
the biggest and all
things--- let all go
dear
        so comes love

and the second---

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 a flower here placing
an inch of air there)and

without breaking anything.

-e.e. cummings, my favorite

lab