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Paw marks near one burrow show Graydiggerat home,
I bend low, from down there swivelmy head, grasstop level—the worldgoes on forever, the mountains a biggerburrow, their snow like last winter.
From a roominside the world even the strongest windhas a soft sound: a new house will hidein the grass; footsteps are only the summer people.
The real estate agent is saying, "Utilities . . .easy payments, a view." I seemy prints in the dirt.
Out therein the wind we talk about credit, security—there on the bank by Graydigger's home.
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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