Pillowtalk by Ursula K. Le Guin

"I want to ask you, Why is it all so strange?"

Pillowtalk

by Ursula K. Le Guin

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Are you asleep? We lie here hearing
the rain in the dark. I want to ask you,
Why is it all so strange?

I'm sleeping and dreaming of the rain
in the dark, in the dark ground. 
I'm ranging out, ranging far. 

You're lying here beside me
as you've always lain.
But it all keeps changing, changing.

Is it your voice or the rain
I hear like somebody weeping?
Lie easy, love. We're out of danger. 

from Finding My Elegy: New and Selected Poems (HarperCollins, 2012)