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E. E. Cummings

the sky a silver
dissonance by the correct
fingers of April
resolved

              into a
clutter of trite jewels

now like a moth with stumbling

wings flutters and flops along the
grass collides with trees and
houses and finally,
butts into the river

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From Tulips and Chimneys | New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1923

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