Quotes About Stafford

Protest poetry -- could there be consensus poetry?

Which of the horses we passed yesterday whinnied all night in my dreams? I want that one.

A poem is a serious joke, a truth that has learned jujitsu.

But codependency is inappropriate, over-the-top loyalty, caring and supportiveness.

Here, you! The boss wants you. Buck up!' Mr Stafford was talking into the telephone. He replaced the receiver as Henry entered. 'Oh, Rice, here's a woman wants her husband shadowed while he's on the road. He's an actor. I'm sending you. Go to this address, and get photographs and all particulars. You'll have to catch the eleven o'clock train on Friday.' 'Yes, sir.' 'He's in The Girl

Stafford.' He backs the stranger into the light. When he sees his face, not

to do. "Briny, you gotta carry her off in the skiff now, before that storm comes in." It'd take too long to move the shantyboat, I know. Briny would realize that too if he could think straight. "You tell him!" the midwife eggs me on. She starts toward Briny, shoving me ahead of her. "You don' get that woman offa this boat, this child's mama be dead befo' mornin'." CHAPTER 3 Avery Stafford AIKEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, PRESENT DAY

He set fire to some potatoes, then cooked some undelivered post in the embers." - Dad "Did he now? What a strange fellow. I would have done it the other way around." - Stafford