(note to self)

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

               -- e.e. cummings

(Many of you know I have an 1100-page book of e.e. cummings poetry that I read like it's the Bible, it includes so much wisdom creatively put. In the midst of an exhausting week, at the end of an exhausting year, I've been turning to it often lately, lacking the time to put things in my own words and so relying on his incredible choice of them.)