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This Life

With Kit,

Age 7, at the

We would climb the highest dune, from there to gaze and come down: the ocean was performing; we contributed our climb.

Waves leapfrogged and came straight out of the storm.

What should our gaze mean?

Kit waited for me to decide.

Standing on such a hill, what would you tell your child?

That was an absolute vista.

Those waves raced far, and cold. "How far could you swim,

Daddy, in such a storm?" "As far as was needed," I said, and as I talked,

I swam.

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William Stafford

William Edgar Stafford (January 17, 1914 – August 28, 1993) was an American poet and pacifist. He was the father of poet and essayist Kim Staffo…

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