Poem of the month: Asleep and Dreaming
August’s poem is by Stephin Merritt.
On the first of every month, I send a poem to a random, and ever-expanding, group of past and present colleagues. I’ve been doing it for about 16 years.
This month’s is Asleep and Dreaming, by Stephin Merritt, the songwriter behind the Magnetic Fields. Four short verses about watching someone you love sleep, and a middle eight that might be the most honest thing ever written about love and looks.
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