“The moon has set,
And the Pleiades.
Midnight.
The hour has gone by.
I sleep alone.”
Stanley Lombardo (1943) Philosopher, Classicist
Frag. 72
Translations, Sappho's Poems and Fragments (2002)
“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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