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  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. AFTER LONG SILENCE
  4. PYRACANTHA AND PLUM
  5. FLOWERING VETCH
  6. THEOLOGY
  7. HOPE: AN ASSAY
  8. TO JUDGMENT: AN ASSAY
  9. THOSE WHO CANNOT ACT
  10. SHEEP’S CHEESE
  11. BENEATH THE SNOW, THE BADGER’S STEADY BREATHING
  12. SKY: AN ASSAY
  13. POCKET OF FOG
  14. ARTICULATION: AN ASSAY
  15. TRANSLUCENCE: AN ASSAY
  16. WHAT IS USUAL IS NOT WHAT IS ALWAYS
  17. THE MOUNTAIN
  18. TEARS: AN ASSAY
  19. POE: AN ASSAY
  20. THE REFUSAL
  21. DOG AND BEAR
  22. DOWNED BRANCH
  23. VILNIUS
  24. “OF”: AN ASSAY
  25. “TO”: AN ASSAY
  26. “AND”: AN ASSAY
  27. STUDY OF MELON & INSECT
  28. A MAN WALKS THROUGH HIS LIFE
  29. A DAY COMES
  30. THE DOUBLE
  31. NOT ONLY PARALLEL LINES EXTEND TO THE INFINITE
  32. I IMAGINE MYSELF IN TIME
  33. THE MEETING
  34. WANTING MORE AND MORE TO LIVE UNOBSERVED, UNOBSERVING
  35. THE DESTINATION
  36. LATE SELF-PORTRAIT BY REMBRANDT
  37. RYOANJI: AN ASSAY
  38. TO OPINION
  39. THE WOODPECKER KEEPS RETURNING
  40. “IT IS NIGHT. IT IS VERY DARK.”
  41. BONSAI
  42. THE PROMISE
  43. THE HEAT OF AUTUMN
  44. TO WAKE AT 3:00
  45. DOG STILL BARKING AT MIDNIGHT
  46. TWO WASHINGS
  47. TERMITES: AN ASSAY
  48. ENVY: AN ASSAY
  49. HESITATION: AN ASSAY
  50. ONCE: AN ASSAY
  51. BURLAP SACK
  52. THE MONK STOOD BESIDE A WHEELBARROW
  53. I WRITE THESE WORDS TO DELAY
  54. SEVENTEEN PEBBLES
  55. TO SPARENESS
  56. “AH!”: AN ASSAY
  57. AGAINST CERTAINTY
  58. JASPER, FELDSPAR, QUARTZITE
  59. INSTANT GLIMPSABLE ONLY FOR AN INSTANT
  60. ONE SAND GRAIN AMONG THE OTHERS IN WINTER WIND
  61. TO SPEECH
  62. POSSIBILITY: AN ASSAY
  63. BAD YEAR
  64. SERRANO PEPPER
  65. THIS MUCH IS PROMISED
  66. IN A ROOM WITH FIVE PEOPLE, SIX GRIEFS
  67. ASK MUCH, THE VOICE SUGGESTED
  68. TO GRAVEL: AN ASSAY
  69. EACH MORNING MY NEIGHBOR WALKS OUT
  70. BETWEEN THE MATERIAL WORLD AND THE WORLD OF FEELING
  71. RED SCARF
  72. THE BELL ZYGMUNT
  73. LETTER TO C.
  74. THE DEAD DO NOT WANT US DEAD
  75. IT WAS LIKE THIS: YOU WERE HAPPY
  76. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  77. About the Author
  78. BOOKS BY JANE HIRSHFIELD
  79. Copyright
  80. About the Publisher

AFTER. Copyright © 2006 by Jane Hirshfield. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

FIRST HARPER PERENNIAL EDITION PUBLISHED 2007.

The Library of Congress has catalogued the hardcover edition as follows:

Hirshfield, Jane.

After: poems / Jane Hirshfield.—1st ed.

p. cm.

ISBN-10: 0-06-077916-0

ISBN-13: 978-0-06-077916-0

I. Title.

PS3558.I694A69    2006

811'.54—dc22

2005050260

EPub Edition © April 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-200859-6

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