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William Stafford
(1914 - 1993 / USA)

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"At noon in the desert a panting lizard
waited for history, its elbows tense,
watching the curve of a particular road
as if something might happen."
William Stafford (1914-1941), U.S. poet. At the Bomb Testing Site (l. 1-4). . . The Darkness Around Us Is Deep; Selected Poems. Robert Bly, ed. (1993) HarperCollins.

"a doe, a recent killing;
she had stiffened already, almost cold.
I dragged her off she was large in the belly."
William Stafford (1914-1941), U.S. poet. Traveling through the Dark (l. 6-8). . . The Darkness Around Us Is Deep; Selected Poems. Robert Bly, ed. (1993) HarperCollins.

"around our group I could hear the wilderness listen."
William Stafford (1914-1941), U.S. poet. Traveling through the Dark (l. 16). . . The Darkness Around Us Is Deep; Selected Poems. Robert Bly, ed. (1993) HarperCollins.

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