(January 17, 1914 – August 28, 1993 / Kansas)

poet William Stafford
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Poems of William Stafford

1. A Ritual To Read To Each Other 1/13/2003
2. Accountability 4/15/2010
3. Across Kansas 1/13/2003
4. After Arguing Against The Contention That Art Must Come From Discontent 4/15/2010
5. Allegiances 1/13/2003
6. American Gothic 4/15/2010
7. An Oregon Message 4/15/2010
8. Ask Me 1/13/2003
9. At The Bomb Testing Site 4/15/2010
10. At The Un-National Monument Along The Canadian Border 4/15/2010
11. Atavism 1/13/2003
12. Bess 4/15/2010
13. Bi-Focal 4/15/2010
14. For My Young Friends Who Are Afraid 1/13/2003
15. Graydigger's Home 1/13/2003
16. Hay-Cutters 4/15/2010
17. Humanities Lecture 4/15/2010
18. In The Deep Channel 4/15/2010
19. Just Thinking 1/13/2003
20. Lit Instructor 1/13/2003

Atavism

1
Sometimes in the open you look up
where birds go by, or just nothing,
and wait. A dim feeling comes
you were like this once, there was air,
and quiet; it was by a lake, or
maybe a river you were alert
as an otter and were suddenly born
like the evening star into wide

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