“I speak to you. You speak to me. Is that fragile?”

"Waterlily Fire" https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/54593, IV: 'Fragile', in Waterlily Fire: Poems 1935-1962 (1962), and in Out of Silence: Selected Poems, ed. Kate Daniels (1994), p. 120

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poet and political activist 1913–1980

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