| Page | Title | |
| 3 | Another Language | |
| 4 | Deep Light | |
| 5 | Stray Moments | |
| 6 | History Display | |
| 7 | Spirit of Place: Blue Heron | |
| 8 | All The Time | |
| 9 | Being Young: Eleven | |
| 11 | Back Home on Class Day | |
| 12 | Facts | |
| 13 | Being Saved | |
| 14 | Playing the Game | |
| 15 | In a Country Churchyard | |
| 16 | Big World, Little Man | |
| 17 | Something You Should Know | |
| 18 | Over in Montana | |
| 19 | A Story I Have to Tell You | |
| 20 | Farrier Talk | |
| 21 | A Farewell, Age Ten | |
| 22 | Sometimes | |
| 23 | A Glimpse, Age Five | |
| 24 | Old Prof | |
| 25 | Poetry | |
| 26 | In The Book | |
| 29 | That Day | |
| 30 | Report to Someone | |
| 31 | With Apologies All Around | |
| 32 | One of the Stories | |
| 34 | For Robert I. Stafford | |
| 35 | Grace Abounding | |
| 36 | After a Sleazy Show | |
| 37 | My NEA Poem | |
| 38 | You Forget | |
| 39 | Learning to Adjust | |
| 40 | Men | |
| 41 | Distractions | |
| 42 | Pretend You Live in a Room | |
| 43 | From the Ink on This Page | |
| 44 | Getting Here | |
| 46 | Up a Side Canyon | |
| 47 | East of Broken Top | |
| 48 | In the All-Verbs Navaho World | |
| 49 | Malheur Befor Dawn | |
| 50 | For Our Party Last Night | |
| 51 | Knowing Where You Are | |
| 52 | Some Names | |
| 53 | Survival Course | |
| 57 | How You Know | |
| 58 | Listening to the Tide | |
| 59 | Good Thought | |
| 60 | In the Library | |
| 61 | A Note Slid Under the Door | |
| 62 | La Boheme | |
| 63 | Even in the Desert | |
| 64 | The Bent-over Ones | |
| 65 | Bristlecone | |
| 66 | The Way Trees Began | |
| 67 | Watching Sandhill Cranes | |
| 68 | Weeds in a Vacant Lot | |
| 69 | By the Chapel | |
| 70 | A Presence | |
| 71 | January's Child | |
| 72 | Freedom of Expression | |
| 73 | Coming to Know | |
| 74 | Listening | |
| 75 | A Thanksgiving For My Father | |
| 77 | Cottonwood | |
| 78 | Looking Out in the Morning: Carson City | |
| 79 | Time Goes By | |
| 80 | How It Can Be | |
| 81 | Bad Dreams | |
| 82 | Influential Writers | |
| 83 | For the Chair of Any Committee I'm On | |
| 84 | A Chile of Luck | |
| 85 | Browser | |
| 89 | Being a Person | |
| 90 | Silver Star | |
| 91 | Where We Are | |
| 92 | Ask Me | |
| 93 | Is This Feeling About the West Real? | |
| 94 | From the Wild People | |
| 95 | Time for Serenity, Anyone? | |
| 96 | A Valley Like This | |
| 97 | You Can't See It, But | |
| 98 | From This Lookout Point | |
| 99 | I'm Any Old Tree | |
| 100 | You Reading This: Stop | |
| 101 | Emily, This Place, and You | |
| 102 | It's Like This | |
| 103 | "Nobody cares . . . " | |
| 104 | Pretty Good Day | |
| 105 | Real People | |
| 106 | The Whole Thing | |
| 107 | What Gets Away |
Even in Quiet Places
William Stafford
(Lewiston: Confluence Press. 1996)
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