Favorite Poems
Throughout My Life
37: “Home,” in Another World Instead: The Early Poems (2008), by William Stafford
(1914–93)
The form is
very clipped—
The lines
are brief.
And thinking
of a rhyme
Is pure
relief
When
syllables are few—
When lines
are short.
A challenge
very stern—
Olympic
sport!
His father here he writes
About—the
debt
He knows he
owes to him—
The loss,
regret.
So quick to
memorize—
Now in my
brain.
Not much to
puzzle here—
Nor to
explain.
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