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

MARGINALIA

And now a reminder for the morning, and for the rest of the week, and this month, and months after this. Let it go, let it go,  let it go, dammit .

ABOUT E. E. CUMMINGS

Edward Estlin (E.E.) Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Cummings earned both his BA and MA from Harvard, and his earliest poems were published in  Eight Harvard Poets  (1917). In 1922 he published his first book,    The Enormous Room   , a fictionalized account of his French captivity. Cummings’ first collection of poems,    Tulips and Chimneys   , appeared in 1923. Another collection quickly followed:    XLI Poems   , also in 1925. By the time of his death in 1962 Cummings held a prominent …  (more)

Edward Estlin (E.E.) Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Cummings earned both his BA and MA from Harvard, and his earliest poems were published in  Eight Harvard Poets  (1917). In 1922 he published his first book,    The Enormous Room   , a fictionalized account of his French captivity. Cummings’ first collection of poems,    Tulips and Chimneys   , appeared in 1923. Another collection quickly followed:    XLI Poems   , also in 1925. By the time of his death in 1962 Cummings held a prominent position in 20th-century poetry. ( Source )

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