In e.e. cummings’ poem, “Somewhere I have never travelled,” the speaker addresses a frail woman, strong in her fragility, and in the last lines, he adds, “Nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands.” Beautiful! Some years later, Tennessee Williams’ uses the lines in the epigraph of his memory play, The Glass Menagerie. I am wondering if Kelli Russell Agodon had the cummings’ line or the play in mind when she wrote “Even the Rain as a Side Hustle.” Who knows? Anyway, the cummings phrase or the phrase in Kelli’s poem might work for a good starter poem. Try it!
Not even the rain…
Even the rain…
Click on these links for the two poems, first cummings’, and then Agodon’s.
https://poets.org/anthology/nobody-not-even-rain
https://oneartpoetry.com/tag/even-the-rain-has-a-side-hustle/