<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;" class="">Notice What This Poem Is Not Doing</div><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">The light along the hills in the morning</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">comes down slowly, naming the trees</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">white, then coasting the ground for stones to nominate.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Notice what this poem is not doing.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">A house, a house, a barn, the old</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">quarry, where the river shrugs--</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">how much of this place is yours?</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Notice what this poem is not doing.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Every person gone has taken a stone</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">to hold, and catch the sun. The carving</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">says, "Not here, but called away."</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Notice what this poem is not doing.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">The sun, the earth, the sky, all wait.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">The crowns and redbirds talk. The light</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">along the hills has come, has found you.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Notice what this poem has not done. </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- William Stafford </div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class="">
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