| Page | Title | |
| 3 | With Kit, Age Seven, At The Beach | |
| 4 | Passing Remark | |
| 5 | At Our House | |
| 6 | Consolations | |
| 7 | For A Lost Child | |
| 8 | A Memorial: Son Bret | |
| 9 | The Light By The Barn | |
| 10 | Anytime | |
| 12 | Long Distance | |
| 17 | Bi-Focal | |
| 18 | A Story That Could Be True | |
| 19 | How These Words Happened | |
| 20 | Near | |
| 21 | Found In a Storm | |
| 22 | A Song in the Manner Of Flannery O'Connor | |
| 23 | If I Could Be Like Wallace Stevens | |
| 24 | My Hands | |
| 25 | An Archival Print | |
| 26 | Run Before Dawn | |
| 28 | From The Move To California | |
| 29 | An Oregon Message | |
| 30 | Allegiances | |
| 31 | How To Regain Your Soul | |
| 32 | Salvaged Parts | |
| 33 | Turn Over Your Hand | |
| 34 | Waiting In Line | |
| 36 | Traveling Through The Dark | |
| 37 | Thinking For Berky | |
| 41 | In The Oregon Country | |
| 42 | Stories To Live In The World With | |
| 44 | In The Night Desert | |
| 45 | By A River In The Osage Country | |
| 46 | In Fur | |
| 47 | Indian Caves In The Dry Country | |
| 48 | Returned To Say | |
| 49 | Wind World | |
| 51 | The Concealment: Ishi, The Last Wild Indian | |
| 53 | People Of The South Wind | |
| 55 | Report To Crazy Horse | |
| 58 | Sioux Haiku | |
| 59 | The Research Team In The Mountains | |
| 61 | Ultimate Problems | |
| 62 | Weather Report | |
| 65 | Our Kind | |
| 66 | My Mother Was A Soldier | |
| 67 | Vacation Trip | |
| 68 | Mother's Day | |
| 69 | Some Shadows | |
| 71 | 108 East 19th | |
| 72 | Father's Voice | |
| 73 | Vocation | |
| 74 | Listening | |
| 75 | A Thanksgiving For My Father | |
| 77 | Fall Journey | |
| 78 | Parentage | |
| 79 | My Father: October 1942 | |
| 80 | Troubleshooting | |
| 81 | Living On The Plains | |
| 82 | A Catechism | |
| 85 | The Farm On The Great Plains | |
| 87 | Serving With Gideon | |
| 88 | The Rescued Year | |
| 91 | In The Deep Channel | |
| 92 | Saint Matthew And All | |
| 93 | Looking Across The River | |
| 95 | Fifteen | |
| 96 | Aduls Only | |
| 97 | Remembering Brother Bob | |
| 98 | Aunt Mabel | |
| 99 | A Family Turn | |
| 100 | One Home | |
| 102 | First Grade | |
| 103 | Remembering | |
| 104 | Earth Dweller | |
| 105 | Ceremony | |
| 106 | Prairie Town | |
| 109 | Watching The Jet Planes Dive | |
| 110 | At The Bomb Testing Site | |
| 111 | Clash | |
| 113 | A Dedication | |
| 115 | Mr. or Mrs. Nobody | |
| 116 | Objector | |
| 117 | At The Un-National Monument Along The Canadian Border | |
| 118 | For My Young Friends Who Are Afraid | |
| 119 | How It Is | |
| 120 | 1940 | |
| 121 | In Camp | |
| 122 | Time Capsule | |
| 123 | Meditation | |
| 124 | Peace Walk | |
| 125 | In The White Sky | |
| 126 | Ask Me | |
| 127 | Things I Learned Last Week | |
| 128 | Star In The Hills | |
| 130 | So Long | |
| 131 | Sayings From The Northern Ice | |
| 133 | Purifying The Language Of The Tribe | |
| 134 | The Well Rising | |
| 135 | A Ritual To Read To Each Other | |
| 137 | Index |
The Darkness Around Us Is Deep
William Stafford
(New York: Harper Perennial. 1993)
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