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The Poet: William Stafford, “A Message from Space”

Wednesday, August 15, 2012 19:42
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“A Message from Space”
 

“Everything that happens is the message:
you read an event and be one and wait,
like breasting a wave, all the while knowing
by living, though not knowing how to live.

Or workers built an antenna- a dish
aimed at stars- and they themselves are its message,
crawling in and out, being worlds that loom,
dot-dash, and sirens, and sustaining beams.

And sometimes no one is calling but we turn up
eye and ear- suddenly we fall into
sound before it begins, the breathing
so still it waits there under the breath-

And then the green of leaves calls out, hills
where they wait or turn, clouds in their frenzied
stillness unfolding their careful words:
“Everything counts.  The message is the world.”

~ William Stafford



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