Poets/William E. Stafford

William E. Stafford

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Today outside your prison I stand …

William E. Stafford

If you don't know the kind of person I am …

William E. Stafford

Cold nights outside the taverns in Wyoming …

William E. Stafford

Whispering to each handhold, “I'll be back,” …

William E. Stafford

When we first moved here, pulled …

William E. Stafford

At noon in the desert a panting lizard …

William E. Stafford

This is the field where the battle did not happen, …

William E. Stafford

Ours are the streets where Bess first met her …

William E. Stafford

Sometimes up out of this land …

William E. Stafford

Aristotle was a little man with …

William E. Stafford

Setting a trotline after sundown …

William E. Stafford

The only relics left are those long …

William E. Stafford

Mine was a Midwest home—you can keep your world. …

William E. Stafford

We wondered what our walk should mean, …

William E. Stafford

All the Sioux were defeated. Our clan …

William E. Stafford

A telephone line goes cold; …

William E. Stafford

The well rising without sound, …

William E. Stafford

Traveling through the dark I found a deer …

William E. Stafford

1Once in Mexico an old man was …

William E. Stafford

Anyone with quiet pace who …

William E. Stafford

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