may-err-de

Updated: July 24, 2026

And I remember him pulling his fine beard into two darknesses huge-sleeved, pink-checked chemise walking kindly like a bear corduroy bigness of trousers, waistline always amorous of knees finger-ends just catching tops of enormous pockets. When he feels, as I think, partly happy, he corrects our pronunciation of the ineffable Word saying "O, May-err-DE!" and smiles.

E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings - The Enormous Room