<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></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; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="phcText phContent" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 620px; position: relative; float: left; word-break: break-word; line-height: 25.6px; padding: 20px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial;"><div style="color: rgb(72, 72, 72); font-family: sans-serif, serif; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 25.6px;" class="">Graydigger’s Home</div><div style="color: rgb(72, 72, 72); font-family: sans-serif, serif; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 25.6px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(72, 72, 72); font-family: sans-serif, serif; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 25.6px;" class="">Paw marks near one burrow show Graydigger<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">at home, I bend low, from down there swivel<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">my head, grasstop level--the world<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">goes on forever, the mountains a bigger<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">burrow, their snow like last winter. From a room<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">inside the world even the strongest wind<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">has a soft sound: a new house will hide<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">in the grass; footsteps are only the summer people.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">The real estate agent is saying, "Utilities . . .<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">easy payments, a view." I see<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">my prints in the dirt. Out there<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">in the wind we talk about credit, security--<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">there on the bank by Graydigger's home.</div><div style="color: rgb(72, 72, 72); font-family: sans-serif, serif; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 25.6px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 25.6px;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="color: rgb(72, 72, 72); font-family: sans-serif, serif; white-space: pre;"> </span><font color="#484848" face="sans-serif, serif" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(72, 72, 72);" class="">- William Stafford</span></font></div></div><div class="phPageBottom" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 20px 20px 0px; color: rgb(72, 72, 72); font-family: sans-serif, serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial;"><div class="phpdAuthor" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; font-size: 18px; width: 580px; position: relative; float: left; margin-bottom: 20px;"><br class=""></div></div></div></body></html>