8.12.2022
learned by heart
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
{
1911-1979
} '
Close close all night
', from
Poems, Prose, and Letters
]
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