FOUND IN A STORM

by William Stafford (1913-1993)


A storm that needed a mountain
met it where we were:
we woke up in a gale
that was reasoning with our tent,
and all the persuaded snow
streaked along, guessing the ground.

We turned from that curtain, down.
But sometime we will turn
back to the curtain and go
by plan through an unplanned storm,
disappearing into the cold,
meanings in search of a world.

(from The Darkness Around Us is Deep, Selected Poems of William Stafford ©1993)