undislodged

Updated: June 5, 2025

The grins leap at the window, hands belonging to them catch hold, arms belonging to the hands stretch in my direction ... an instant; the new grins leap from behind and knock off the first grins which go down with a fragile crashing like glass smashed: hands wither and break, arms streak out of sight, sucked inward. In the huge potpourri of misery a central figure clung, shaken but undislodged.

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