“Sleeping. Turning in turn like planets rotating in their midnight meadow: a touch is enough to let us know we're not alone in the universe, even in sleep.”

Source: The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems Selected and New, 1950-1984

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American poet, essayist and feminist 1929–2012

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