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Variations on the Word Sleep Margaret Atwood

I would like to be the air
that inhabits you for a moment
only. I would like to be that unnoticed
& that necessary.

(excerpt)
From Selected Poems II: 1976-1986
Houghton Mifflin
Copyright © 1987
Reprinted with permission of the author

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