Sleeping. Turning in turn like planets rotating in their midnight mead…

Adrienne Rich
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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. ✨ Adrienne Rich (2013). The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977, p.29, W. W. Norton & Company
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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. ✨ Adrienne Rich (2013). The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977, p.29, W. W. Norton & Company

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