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Time tells them.
They go along touching the grass, the feathery ends.
When it feels just so, they start the mowing machine, leaving the land its long windrows, and air strokes the leaves dry.
Sometimes you begin to push; you want to hurry the sun, have the hours expand, because clouds come.
Lightning looks out from their hearts.
You try to hope the clouds away. "Some year we'll have perfect hay."
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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