William Stafford (Уильям Стэффорд)

Walking West

Anyone with quiet pace who
walks a gray road in the West
may hear a badger underground where
in deep flint another time is

Caught by flint and held forever,
the quiet pace of God stopped still.
Anyone who listens walks on
time that dogs him single file,

To mountains that are far from people,
the face of the land gone gray like flint.
Badgers dig their little lives there,
quiet-paced the land lies gaunt,

The railroad dies by a yellow depot,
town falls away toward a muddy creek.
Badger-gray the sod goes under
a river of wind, a hawk on a stick.

1. Traveling through the Dark
2. After Arguing against the Contention That Art Must Come from Discontent
3. Security
4. Humanities Lecture
5. At the Un-National Monument along the Canadian Border

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