Close, close all night the lovers keep. They turn together in their sl…

Elizabeth Bishop
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Close, close all night the lovers keep. They turn together in their sleep, Close as two pages in a book that read each other in the dark. Each knows all the other knows, learned by heart from head to toes. ✨ Elizabeth Bishop (2008). Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters
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Close, close all night the lovers keep. They turn together in their sleep, Close as two pages in a book that read each other in the dark. Each knows all the other knows, learned by heart from head to toes. ✨ Elizabeth Bishop (2008). Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters

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