Post Impressions (VI)

E. E. Cummings

into the strenuous briefness
Life:
handorgans and April
darkness,friends

i charge laughing.
Into the hair-thin tints
of yellow dawn,
into the women-coloured twilight

i smilingly
glide. I
into the big vermilion departure
swim,sayingly;

(Do you think?)the
i do,world
is probably made
of roses & hello:

(of solongs and,ashes)

This poem is in the public domain.

"Post Impressions (VI)" by E. E. Cummings

About This Poem

“Post-Impressions (VI)” was published in Tulips & Chimneys (Liveright, 1923).

E. E. Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on October 14, 1894. His poetry collections include No Thanks (The Golden Eagle Press, 1935), W(ViVa) (Liveright, 1931), and Tulips and Chimneys (Liverlight, 1923), among others. He died on September 3, 1962, in North Conway, New Hampshire.

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No Thanks

(Liveright, 1998)

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April Guest Editor: Tracy K. Smith

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April 6, 2019