"may came home with a smooth round stone/as small as a world and as large as alone."

[faeriemere]

Most random thing ever: I've just re-discovered e e cummings. I don't know how I'd forgotten (or perhaps never realized?) how delightfully, novelly insightful his work is. I've always hated trying to decipher the deep metaphor that many poets used; but I actually enjoy the layered meanings here

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[coventry_lance]

This makes me want to read e.e. cummings. Also, Marin quoted this same line yesterday. Strange.

[faeriemere]

You should. His wordplay is charmingly whimsical, yet also powerfully meaningful. It's an arresting combination.

What a curious coincidence. It's from a short little poem called "maggie and milly and molly and may". The one everyone knows, though (and with good reason), is "i carry your heart with me".