Remember when
we both had
simple motives?
You and I would
disguise ourselves as
part of the world;
Our motions would be
like theirs,
like thier life.
And at the last,
carefully watching
people’s ways,
we would even die.
William Stafford
(1914-1993) William Stafford published more than sixty-five volumes of poetry and prose including Traveling Through the Dark, which won the National Book Award in 1963; The Rescued Year; Stories That Could Be True: New and Collected Poems; and Writing the Australian Crawl: Views on the Writer's Vocation. Among his many honors and awards were a Shelley Memorial Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Western States Lifetime Achievement Award in Poetry, as well as the Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1970.
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