Discussion → A poem by William Stafford

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  Sam Rasnake

  Apr 05, 12:04pm

  
  

  William Stafford

  "At the Bomb Testing Site"

  At noon in the desert a panting lizard
  waited for history, its elbows tense,
  watching the curve of a particular road
  as if something might happen.

  It was looking at something farther off
  than people could see, an important scene
  acted in stone for little selves
  at the flute end of consequences.

  There was just a continent without much on it
  under a sky that never cared less.
  Ready for a change, the elbows waited.
  The hands gripped hard on the desert.

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• 
  Gloria Garfunkel

  Apr 11, 04:18am

  
  

  Beautifully conveyed tension.

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