About Linda Pastan

Linda Pastan’s twelfth book of poems, Queen of a Rainy Country, was published by Norton in 2006. She was Poet Laureate of Maryland from 1991 to 1995 and has been a finalist twice for the National Book Award. She won the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize in 2003.

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Insomnia

Linda Pastan

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I remember when my body
was a friend,

when sleep like a good dog
came when summoned.

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