Monday, January 13, 2003

The Light By The Barn Comments

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The light by the barn that shines all night
pales at dawn when a little breeze comes.

A little breeze comes breathing the fields
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William Stafford
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Michael Joseph Ferguson 29 January 2008

I've read this poem many times over the years - in bookstores, libraries... and like many of Stafford's poems, it has the ability to slow the train of thought down, and bring the focus in tight - to this moment. Stillness, nature, the luminescence of the seemingly mundane - this is Stafford country, and he minds it well.

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