. . .
It is more natural to me, lying down.
Then the sky and I are in open conversation,
And I shall be useful when I lie down finally:
Then the trees may touch me for once, and the flowers will have time for me.

Sylvia Plath, “I Am Vertical”, Collected Poems (London: Faber and Faber, 1989) 162.

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