E.E. Cummings poetry question

October 26, 2005 10:55 PM

I am looking for a certain E.E. Cummings poem...

The only line I can more or less remember is something about "thumbprints of an angel named Frederick found on a lightning rod"

I just need the title/first line, not a link to the text...

posted by hototogisu to writing & language (10 comments total)

will I ever forget that precarious moment?
posted by sanko at 10:59 PM on October 26, 2005

Dead on. Thanks.
posted by hototogisu at 11:00 PM on October 26, 2005

Last post on this thread. Either the title is "Will I ever forget that precarious moment?" and the first line "As I was standing on the third rail waiting for the", or else "Will I ever forget that precarious moment?" is the first line and the title is missing.
posted by ori at 11:01 PM on October 26, 2005

Er. Beaten to it. Should preview more often, etc.
posted by ori at 11:02 PM on October 26, 2005

Oddly enough, I'd looked at that link ori and thought that poem was a different one, and didn't even see the line I was looking for.

Sweet.
posted by hototogisu at 11:04 PM on October 26, 2005

MetaFilter: If I should have made this perfectly clear, it entirely would have been not my fault.
posted by languagehat at 6:54 AM on October 27, 2005

you mean e. e. cummings, right
posted by Count Ziggurat at 1:26 PM on October 27, 2005

His name is frequently written in lowercase, e. e. cummings, as the lowercase form was a concept for a cover design by one of his publishers. However, Cummings himself capitalized his name. Stories claiming that Cummings preferred a lowercase version of his name or even so much legally changed his name to the lowercase version are false.
posted by languagehat at 3:04 PM on October 27, 2005

You beat me to it, languagehat.
posted by hototogisu at 4:10 PM on October 27, 2005

I didn't know that. Thanks.
posted by Count Ziggurat at 8:38 PM on October 28, 2005