<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539377" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Traveling Through The Dark</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Traveling through the dark I found a deer<br>dead on the edge of the Wilson River road.<br>It is usually best to roll them into the canyon:<br>that road is narrow; to swerve might make more dead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">By glow of the tail-light I stumbled back of the car<br>and stood by the heap, a doe, a recent killing;<br>she had stiffened already, almost cold.<br>I dragged her off; she was large in the belly.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My fingers touching her side brought me the reason--<br>her side was warm; her fawn lay there waiting,<br>alive, still, never to be born.<br>Beside that mountain road I hesitated.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The car aimed ahead its lowered parking lights;<br>under the hood purred the steady engine.<br>I stood in the glare of the warm exhaust turning red;<br>around our group I could hear the wilderness listen.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I thought hard for us all--my only swerving--,<br>then pushed her over the edge into the river.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Stafford">William Stafford</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539377" data-title="Traveling Through The Dark de William Stafford" data-description="Traveling through the dark I found a deer dead on the edge of the Wilson River road. It is usually best to roll them into the canyon: that road is narrow; to swerve might make more dead. By glow of the tail-light I stumbled back of the car and st..."></div> </div> </div>

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