variation on the word sleep

I would like to watch you sleeping,

which may not happen.

I would like to watch you, sleeping.

I would like to sleep with you,

to enter your sleep as its smooth dark wave

slides over my head

From Variations on the Word Sleep by Margaret Atwood

via the ugly earring

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is not always loud and bright and crowded

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around. EL Konigsburg, From the Crazy Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

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so soundly slaps

...there’s no accounting for lust, my friend, and nothing that so soundly slaps together the nasty with the desirable. Amy Letter, Poem I Love in The Rumpus

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