Influential Writers by William Stafford (aka one of the best of the 20th cent.)
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Everything the man touched is golden, I swear.
Between him and Richard Hugo, I just die.
♥
Influential Writers
William Stafford
Some of them write too loud.
Some write the mauve poem
over and over.
In our time a whole tribe have
campaigned with noisy boots on-
they look swashbuckling but
all the syllables finally run and hide.
Their swagger makes them feel good,
but mobilizes opposition.
Listen-after a torrent begins even big rocks
have to get out of the way,
but at the top of the divide you can change
Mississippi to Columbia with one finger,
and I did.
But I didn't want the Pacific this big.
The Way It Is, p.175
Everything the man touched is golden, I swear.
Between him and Richard Hugo, I just die.
♥
Influential Writers
William Stafford
Some of them write too loud.
Some write the mauve poem
over and over.
In our time a whole tribe have
campaigned with noisy boots on-
they look swashbuckling but
all the syllables finally run and hide.
Their swagger makes them feel good,
but mobilizes opposition.
Listen-after a torrent begins even big rocks
have to get out of the way,
but at the top of the divide you can change
Mississippi to Columbia with one finger,
and I did.
But I didn't want the Pacific this big.
The Way It Is, p.175