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"At the Bomb Testing Site" is one of my favorite Stafford poems. It's all about the lizard elbows.
— Jan 20, 2026 02:59PM
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And "These Mornings," written in 1944, is still chillingly relevant today:
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"you never heard so deep a sound, / moss on rock, and years."
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Old mistakes come calling: no life / happens just once.
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From Kim Stafford's preface: At a reading, following one of his deft, quiet offerings, a listener helplessly spoke aloud, "I could have written that." And William Stafford, looking kindly at the speaker, replied, "But you didn't." A beat of silence. "But you could write your own."
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