Stories that could be true : new and collected poems / by William Stafford.

Stories That Could Be True (1977)
Believing : Our Story ; Always ; A Story That Could Be True ; The Burning House ; Wovoka's Witness ; Things in the Wild Need Salt ; Blackbirds ; Some Evening ; Heard Under a Tin Sign at the Beach ; Accountability ; A Message from the Wanderer
Being Good : Look ; Song Now ; At the Playground ; Artist, Come Home ; Wild Horse Lore ; Fictions ; My Party the Rain ; On a Church Lawn ; Ducks Down in the Meadow ; Another Old Guitar
Learning to Live in the World : Slave on the Headland ; One Life ; The Little Girl by the Fence at School ; Growing Up ; At the Un-National Monument Along the Canadian Border ; Surviving a Poetry Circuit ; One of Your Lives ; Ask Me ; A Bird Inside a Box
Whispered into the Ground : The Moment Again ; Apologia Pro Vita Sua ; Broken Home ; Islands ; Sitting Up Late ; One of the Years ; Whenever It Is ; A Bridge Begins in the Trees ; Peace Walk ; This Town: Winter Morning ; Whispered into the Ground.

West of Your City (1960)
Midwest : West of Your City ; One Home ; Ceremony ; In the Deep Channel ; At the Salt Marsh ; Hail Mary ; Circle of Breath ; Listening ; A Visit Home ; The Farm on the Great Plains
Far West : Walking West ; A Survey ; Our People ; In the Oregon Country ; The Gun of Billy the Kid ; Weather Report ; Vacation ; Willa Cather ; Small Item ; At the Bomb Testing Site ; Lore ; By the Snake River ; The Fish Counter at Bonneville ; Sauvies Island ; Watching the Jet Planes Dive ; The Move to California
Outside : Bi-Focal ; Outside ; Boom Town ; Level Light ; Two Evenings ; Ice-Fishing ; The Well Rising ; The Ritual to Read to Each Other ; Connections ; Acquaintance ; On the Glass Ice ; Sayings from the Northern Ice ; It Is the Time You Think ; Sunset: Southwest ; Following ; Postscript.

Traveling Through the Dark (1962)
In Medias Res : Traveling Through the Dark ; In Medias Res ; Elgy ; A Stared Story ; Thinking for Berky ; With My Crowbar Key ; Mouse Night: One of Our Games ; The Thought Machine ; Parentage ; The Research Team in the Mountains ; Holding the Sky ; The Job ; Prairie Town ; Conservative ; Tornado ; The Old Hamer Place ; The Woman at Banff ; The Tillamook Burn ; On Quitting a Little College ; Reporting Back ; The Poets' Annual Indigence Report ; In Response to a Question ; With One Launched Look ; B.C. ; Captive ; The View from Here ; Lit Instructor ; The Star in the Hills ; I was in the City All Day ; A Poet to a Novelist ; Universe Is One Place ; I the Night Desert
Before the Big Storm : Before the Big Storm ; Things We Did That Meant Something ; At Liberty School ; Lake Chelan ; Summer Will Rise ; Fall Journey ; Late at Night ; The Museum at Tillamook ; A Dedication ; Chickens the Weasel Killed ; Requiem ; The Last Friend ; "The Lyf So Short ..." ; The Only Card I Got on My Birthday Was from an Insurance Man ; At the Old Place ; Love the Butcher Bird Lurks Everywhere ; Learning ; In the Museum ; Time's Exile ; Adults Only ; Wisteria Jones ; Birthday ; Glances ; Fall Wind ; A Pippa Lilted ; The Trip
Representing Far Places : Representing Far Places ; Long Distance ; The Peters Family ; From the Gradual Grass ; In Fear and Valor ; The Title Comes Later ; At Cove on the Crooked River ; Last Vacation ; Looking for Someone ; What God Used for Eyes Before We Came ; Found in a Storm ; Returned to Say ; A Look Returned ; Late Thinker ; Interlude ; In Dear Detail, by Ideal Light ; The Wanderer Awaiting Preferment ; Vocation.

The Rescued Year (1966)
The Tulip Tree
Some Shadows
My Father: October 1942
Back Home
Across Kansas
A Family Turn
Fifteen
Homecoming
The Rescued Year
Judgments
Uncle George
Aunt Mabel
Strokes
Our City Is Guarded by Automatic Rockets
Believer
Letter from Oregon
A Farewell in Tumbleweed Time
At the Chairman's Housewarming
When I Was Young
Doubt on the Great Divide
Winterward
The Epitaph Ending in And
Keepsakes
A Documentary from America
Out West
At This Point on the Page
At the Fair
Passing Remark
At the Klamath Berry Festival
Near Edinburgh Castle
Following the Markings of Dag Hammarskjold: A Gathering of Poems in the Spirit of His Life and Writings : Prologue ; A Song Demonstrators in Mexico Sing in Troubled Parts of a City ; A Thanksgiving for My Father ; Jack London ; The Concealment: Ishi, the Last Wild Indian ; Glimpses in the Woods ; Walking the Wilderness
Right Now
From Eastern Oregon
Once Men Were Created
Across the Lake's Eye
A Human Condition
For the Grave of Daniel Boone
Hunting
Sophocles Says
Near
Recoil
The Animal That Drank Up Sound
Read to the Last Line.

Someday, Maybe (1973)
Motorcycle, Count My Sins : An Introduction to Some Poems ; Thirteenth and Pennsylvania ; New Letters from Thomas Jefferson ; Glimpse Between Buildings ; For a Child Gone to Live in a Commune ; Old Dog ; Hero ; A Lecture on the Elegy ; That Time of Year ; A Girl Daddy Used to Know ; World Staccato ; A Living ; Trying to Remember a Town ; Waking at 3 a.m. ; Love in the Country ; Losing a Friend ; Some Days of Its Gift ; Dreams to Have ; The Escape ; A Little Gift ; Three Looks Out of a Window ; Hide and Go Seek at the Cemetery ; In a Time of Need ; Sleeping on the Sisters Land ; In the White Sky ; Weeds ; Room 000 ; In a Museum in the Capital ; Speaking Frankly ; Existences ; Friend ; Father and Son
Wind World : Origins ; Indian Caves in the Dry Country ; People of the South Wind ; Touches ; Bring the North ; The Airport at Anchorage ; Report to Crazy Horse ; Sioux Haiku ; People with Whetstones ; Stories to Live in the World with ; Wind World ; Deer Stolen ; The Earth ; A Scene in the Country by a Telegraph Line ; Owl ; The Widow Who Taught at an Army School ; The Lost Meteorite in the Coast Range ; The Little Ways That Encourage Good Fortune ; Crossing the Desert ; After That Sound, After That Sight ; Journey ; The Whole Story
Report from a Far Place : In the Desert ; The Moment ; The Swerve ; Report from a Far Place ; Freedom ; The Little Lost Orphans ; The Eskimo National Anthem ; People Who Went by in Winter ; Witness ; Now ; Our Time's Name ; Blackberries Are Back ; Composed, Composed ; A Song in the Manner of Flannery O'Connor ; Have You Heard This One? ; Ozymandia's Brother ; Juncos ; Dear Mother ; The Stick in the Forest ; For the Governor ; Vespers.

Allegiances (1970)
With Kit, Age 7, at the Beach
Bess
Monuments for a Friendly Girl at a Tenth Grade Party
Holcomb, Kansas
A Gesture Toward an Unfound Renaissance
Reaching Out to Turn on a Light
Remembering Althea
The Last Day
At the Grave of My Brother
Father's Voice
Observation Car and Cigar
In Sublette's Barn
Carols Back Then: 1935
Some Autumn Characters
The Girl Engaged to the Boy Who Died
Strangers
The Preacher at the Corner
The Gift
Return to Single-Shot
Remember
Behind the Falls
Montana Eclogue
A Story
A Memorial Day
Quiet Town
A Letter
A Sound from the Earth
Flowers at an Airport
Texas
Garden City
Memorials of a Tour Around Mt. Hood
Stories from Kansas
Things That Happen
Christianite
What I Heard Whispered at the Edge of Liberal, Kansas
On Don Quixote's Horse
Vacation Trip
Like a Little Stone
Note
Space Country
The Climb
An Epiphany
Brevities
Evening News
Humanities Lecture
In Fur
Religion Back Home
How I Escaped
Mornings
Spectator
Any Time
Folk Song
Believing What I Know
Where We Are
Tragic Song
At Our House
Allegiances
Deerslayer's Campfire Talk
In Fog
In the Old Days
Time
Earth Dweller
These Days
A Walk in the Country
So Long.