“Go to sleep, you stunning sky, gently creep, cunning by
A quiet hum is amplified by your thumb that you suck dry
A hundred raging waters snare the lonely sigh
Hold your breath and clasp at Cassiopeia.”

— Joanna Newsom

Cassiopeia
The Milk-Eyed Mender (2004)

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