Jane Hirshfield, born in New York City and a longtime resident of northern California, is the author of ten collections of poetry, including The Asking: New & Selected Poems (US, Knopf, 2023; UK, Bloodaxe Books, 2024) and an earlier retrospective, Each Happiness Ringed by Lions (Bloodaxe Books, 2005). Her 2006 collection, After, was a Poetry Book Society Choice and shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Called 'one of the most important writers in the world today' (The New York Times Magazine) and one of American poetry's central spokespersons for the biosphere, she is the founder of an online and travelling interactive exhibit exploring the alliance of poetry and science. Also the author of Hiddenness, Surprise, Uncertainty: Three Generative Energies of Poetry (Newcastle/ Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures, 2008) and two now-classic US collections of essays, Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry (1997) and Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World (2015), she has edited and co-translated four books presenting the work of world poets from the deep past: the anthology Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women (1994); The Ink Dark Moon: Poems by Ono No Komachi and Izumi Shikibu (US, 1988; UK 2023) and The Heart of Haiku (2011), both with Mariko Aratani; and Mirabai: Ecstatic Poems (2004), with Robert Bly. Her own poetry has been translated into seventeen languages, including by Czesław Miłosz, who wrote the introduction to her 2002 Polish Selected Poems. Recipient of numerous literary awards, an elected member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and a former chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, she has taught at Stanford University, U.C. Berkeley, and elsewhere, and was the 2022 Seamus Heaney International Visiting Poetry Fellow at Queen’s University, Belfast.

Jane Hirshfield’s poems often feel like whole landscapes, graciously embracing the widest view and the tiniest sequins at once . . . Her longtime practice of Soto Zen Buddhism and her commitments to scientific knowledge and respect blend to create some of the most important poetry in the world today

• NEW POEMS (2023)Door and Sentence 3Counting, New Year’s Morning,What Powers Yet Remain to Me 4Tin 5Manifest 6Solstice 8Two Versions 9Today, When I Could Do Nothing 10Poem Holding a Wristwatch Belonging tothe Brazilian Poet Ferreira Gullar 12Each Morning Calls Us to PraiseThis World That Is Fleeting 13Two Kerosene Lanterns 14To Be a Person 15O, Responsibility 16[Five Pebbles] 17Here & Now 17Words Stop 17My Failure 17Chrysanthemum 17Vestment 17A Day Just Ends 18I asked to be lush, to be green. 19“A map grows no trees.” 20Thermopolium 21The Difficult Day 22Poem to Be Written by Magnet in Oil for an Exhibitat the Museum of Tomorrow in Rio de Janeiro 23Body, Mind of the Ransacked Thrift Shop 24Silence: An Assay 25My Window 26Invitation 27Again, I Enter My Life 28Mosses 30Letter to Adam Zagajewski 32Aubade Now of Earth 33I Would Like 34I open the window. 36from ALAYA (1971–1982)And / Yes in the Fields You 39December Solstice, ’73 40Everything That Is Not You 41from OF GRAVITY & ANGELS (1988)After Work 45In a Net of Blue and Gold 46Invocation 47To Hear the Falling World 48Dialogue 49To Drink 50Heat 51Tonight the Incalculable Stars 53For What Binds Us 54November, Remembering Voltaire 55Evening, Late Fall 56Osiris 57Woman in Red Coat 58Justice Without Passion 59October 20, 1983 60On Reading Brecht 61With Singing and Banners 62A Story 63Childhood, Horses, Rain 64Autumn Quince 65from THE OCTOBER PALACE (1994)The Kingdom 69Each Step 701973 71The Groundfall Pear 73Percolation 74Happiness 75The Love of Aged Horses 76Inspiration 77History as the Painter Bonnard 78Narcissus: Tel Aviv, Baghdad, California, February 1991 79The Wedding 80A Plenitude 82The Door 83Floor 84“Perceptibility Is a Kind of Attentiveness” 85This Love 87Even the Vanishing Housed 88A Sweetening All Around Me as It Falls 89Leaving the October Palace 90Autumn 91Ripeness 92The Weighing 93The Gods Are Not Large 94The Heart as Origami 95Meeting the Light Completely 96Within This Tree 97The Task 98Empedocles’ Physics 99The Stone of Heaven 100from THE LIVES OF THE HEART (1988)Secretive Heart 105Mule Heart 106Salt Heart 107On the Beach 108Heart Starting and Stopping in the Late Dark 109The World Loved by Moonlight 110The Adamantine Perfection of Desire 111Standing Deer 112Changing Everything 113Da Capo 114Not-Yet 115Three Foxes by the Edge of the Field at Twilight 116Leaf 117Hope and Love 118Late Prayer 119Each Happiness Ringed by Lions 120Each Moment a White Bull Steps Shining into the World 121Orange Oil in Darkness 122The Sweetness of Apples, of Figs 123Wine Grapes for Breakfast 124Bees 125Lake and Maple 126Milk 128Jasmine 130The Poet 131Blind Fate Walking on Ice in the Woods 132The Bearded Woman 133Spell for Inviting-in the New Soul 134Spell to Be Said Before Sleep 135Spell to Be Said Upon Departure 136Three Times My Life Has Opened 137from GIVEN SUGAR, GIVEN SALT (2001)The Envoy 141Red Berries 142Apple 143A Hand 144Habit 145Rebus 146Waking This Morning Dreamless After Long Sleep 147Bobcats, Beetles, Owls 148Great Powers Once Raged Through Your Body 149The Contract 150Red Onion, Cherries, Boiling Potatoes, Milk— 151This Was Once a Love Poem 152Button 153Inflection Finally Ungraspable by Grammar 154In Praise of Coldness 155Happiness Is Harder 156Like an Ant Carrying Her Bits of Leaf or Sand 157Pillow 158Poem with Two Endings 160“Nothing Lasts” 161Self-Portrait in a Borrowed Cabin 162All Evening, Each Time I Started to Say It 163Ladder 164Balance 165A Cedary Fragrance 166Identity 167For Horses, Horseflies 168Moment 169Speed and Perfection 170Optimism 171Tree 172The Silence 173Sleep 175Ink 178Metempsychosis 181from AFTER (2006)After Long Silence 185Theology 186Pyracantha and Plum 187Dog and Bear 188The Woodpecker Keeps Returning 189Vilnius 190To Judgment: An Assay 191To Opinion: An Assay 193Ryoanji: An Assay 194“Of”: An Assay 194To Speech: An Assay 195Possibility: An Assay 198Against Certainty 199Those Who Cannot Act 200The Double 201I Imagine Myself in Time 202Late Self-Portrait by Rembrandt 203The Heat of Autumn 204Burlap Sack 205The Monk Stood Beside a Wheelbarrow 206[Ten Pebbles] 207Global Warming 207The Complaint 207Maple 207Lemon 207Tool Use in Animals 207To Sneezing 208Why Bodhidharma Went to Motel 6 208A Class Almost Empty 208Sentence 208Red Scarf 209In a Room with Five People, Six Griefs 210“It is Night. It is Very Dark.” 211The Promise 212The Bell Zygmunt 213The Dead Do Not Want Us Dead 214It Was Like This: You Were Happy 215from COME, THIEF (2011)French Horn 219First Light Edging Cirrus 220The Decision 221Vinegar and Oil 222Narrowness 223Sheep 224Perishable, It Said 225Love in August 226Bruises 227The Promise 228China 229If Truth Is the Lure, Humans Are Fishes 230Seawater Stiffens Cloth 231Washing Doorknobs 232Heat and Desperation 233Alzheimer’s 234Green-Striped Melons 235All the Difficult Hours and Minutes 236The Present 237[Thirteen Pebbles] 238Like Moonlight Seen in a Well 238Mountain and Mouse 238Memorial 238Everything Has Two Endings 238The Cloudy Vase 238The Lost Love Poems of Sappho 239It Must Be Leaves 239The Perfection of Loss 239The Visible Heat 240Rainstorm Visibly Shining in the Left-out Spoon of a Leaf 240Sonoma Fire 240Night and Day 240Opening the Hands Between Here and Here 241A Blessing for Wedding 242Come, Thief 242For the Lobaria, Usnea, Witches’ Hair, Map Lichen, BeardLichen, Ground Lichen, Shield Lichen 243A Small-Sized Mystery 244Contentment 245The Egg Had Frozen, an Accident.I Thought of My Life. 246The Kind Man 247A Day Is Vast 248Stone and Knife 249Pompeii 250Suitcase 251My Luck 252A Hand Is Shaped for What It Holds or Makes 253I Ran Out Naked in the Sun 254The Supple Deer 255from THE BEAUTY (2015)Fado 259My Skeleton 260My Proteins 262My Species 264My Eyes 265My Weather 266My Life Was the Size of My Life 267Many-Roofed Building in Moonlight 268Things Keep Sorting Themselves 269A Cottony Fate 270I Wanted Only a Little 271February 29 272As a Hammer Speaks to a Nail 273[Nine Pebbles] 274I Sat in the Sun 274The Woman, the Tiger 274I Know You Think I’ve Forgotten 274Still Life 274Quartz Clock 274Humbling: An Assay 275Away from Home, I Thought of the Exiled Poets 275Two Linen Handkerchiefs 275Anywhere You Look 275This Morning, I Wanted Four Legs 276Works & Loves 277A Chair in Snow 279Like the Small Hole by the Path-SideSomething Lives In 280In a Kitchen Where Mushrooms Were Washed 281All Souls 282Zero Plus Anything Is a World 283Entanglement 284Like Two Negative Numbers Multiplied by Rain 286from LEDGER (2020)Let Them Not Say 289The Bowl 290As If Hearing Heavy Furniture Moved on the FloorAbove Us 291Ants’ Nest 292Today, Another Universe 293Cataclysm 294Fecit 295Day Beginning with Seeing the International SpaceStation and a Full Moon over the Gulf of Mexicoand All Its Invisible Fishes 296Practice 297Words 298She Breathes in the Scent 299Engraving: World-Tree with an Empty Beehiveon One Branch 300Now a Darkness Is Coming 301My Doubt 302I wanted to be surprised. 304Vest 306Brocade 308Chance darkened me. 309Branch 310In Ulvik 311Advice to Myself 312A Ream of Paper 313The Paw-Paw 314Like Others 315[Ten Pebbles] 316My Longing 316My Hunger 316My Contentment 316Wild Turkeys 316Library Book with Many Precisely Turned-down Corners 317O Snail 317A Strategy 317Sixth Extinction 317Biophilia 317Obstacle 317The Little Soul Poems 318Amor Fati 318Kitchen 318Snow 319Harness 319Pelt 319Rust Flakes on Wind 320Wood. Salt. Tin. 320I Said 321Ledger 322On the Fifth Day 323(No Wind, No Rain) 324Ghazal for the End of Time 325Mountainal 326My Debt 327Acknowledgments 331Index of titles 333Biographical note 341

Jane Hirshfield, born in New York City and a longtime resident of northern California, is the author of ten collections of poetry, including The Asking: New & Selected Poems (US, Knopf, 2023; UK, Bloodaxe Books, 2024) and an earlier retrospective, Each Happiness Ringed by Lions (Bloodaxe Books, 2005). Her 2006 collection, After, was a Poetry Book Society Choice and shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Called 'one of the most important writers in the world today' (The New York Times Magazine) and one of American poetry's central spokespersons for the biosphere, she is the founder of an online and travelling interactive exhibit exploring the alliance of poetry and science. Also the author of Hiddenness, Surprise, Uncertainty: Three Generative Energies of Poetry (Newcastle/ Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures, 2008) and two now-classic US collections of essays, Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry (1997) and Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World (2015), she has edited and co-translated four books presenting the work of world poets from the deep past: the anthology Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women (1994); The Ink Dark Moon: Poems by Ono No Komachi and Izumi Shikibu (US, 1988; UK 2023) and The Heart of Haiku (2011), both with Mariko Aratani; and Mirabai: Ecstatic Poems (2004), with Robert Bly. Her own poetry has been translated into seventeen languages, including by Czesław Miłosz, who wrote the introduction to her 2002 Polish Selected Poems. Recipient of numerous literary awards, an elected member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and a former chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, she has taught at Stanford University, U.C. Berkeley, and elsewhere, and was the 2022 Seamus Heaney International Visiting Poetry Fellow at Queen’s University, Belfast.

Jane Hirshfield’s poems often feel like whole landscapes, graciously embracing the widest view and the tiniest sequins at once . . . Her longtime practice of Soto Zen Buddhism and her commitments to scientific knowledge and respect blend to create some of the most important poetry in the world today

• NEW POEMS (2023)Door and Sentence 3Counting, New Year’s Morning,What Powers Yet Remain to Me 4Tin 5Manifest 6Solstice 8Two Versions 9Today, When I Could Do Nothing 10Poem Holding a Wristwatch Belonging tothe Brazilian Poet Ferreira Gullar 12Each Morning Calls Us to PraiseThis World That Is Fleeting 13Two Kerosene Lanterns 14To Be a Person 15O, Responsibility 16[Five Pebbles] 17Here & Now 17Words Stop 17My Failure 17Chrysanthemum 17Vestment 17A Day Just Ends 18I asked to be lush, to be green. 19“A map grows no trees.” 20Thermopolium 21The Difficult Day 22Poem to Be Written by Magnet in Oil for an Exhibitat the Museum of Tomorrow in Rio de Janeiro 23Body, Mind of the Ransacked Thrift Shop 24Silence: An Assay 25My Window 26Invitation 27Again, I Enter My Life 28Mosses 30Letter to Adam Zagajewski 32Aubade Now of Earth 33I Would Like 34I open the window. 36from ALAYA (1971–1982)And / Yes in the Fields You 39December Solstice, ’73 40Everything That Is Not You 41from OF GRAVITY & ANGELS (1988)After Work 45In a Net of Blue and Gold 46Invocation 47To Hear the Falling World 48Dialogue 49To Drink 50Heat 51Tonight the Incalculable Stars 53For What Binds Us 54November, Remembering Voltaire 55Evening, Late Fall 56Osiris 57Woman in Red Coat 58Justice Without Passion 59October 20, 1983 60On Reading Brecht 61With Singing and Banners 62A Story 63Childhood, Horses, Rain 64Autumn Quince 65from THE OCTOBER PALACE (1994)The Kingdom 69Each Step 701973 71The Groundfall Pear 73Percolation 74Happiness 75The Love of Aged Horses 76Inspiration 77History as the Painter Bonnard 78Narcissus: Tel Aviv, Baghdad, California, February 1991 79The Wedding 80A Plenitude 82The Door 83Floor 84“Perceptibility Is a Kind of Attentiveness” 85This Love 87Even the Vanishing Housed 88A Sweetening All Around Me as It Falls 89Leaving the October Palace 90Autumn 91Ripeness 92The Weighing 93The Gods Are Not Large 94The Heart as Origami 95Meeting the Light Completely 96Within This Tree 97The Task 98Empedocles’ Physics 99The Stone of Heaven 100from THE LIVES OF THE HEART (1988)Secretive Heart 105Mule Heart 106Salt Heart 107On the Beach 108Heart Starting and Stopping in the Late Dark 109The World Loved by Moonlight 110The Adamantine Perfection of Desire 111Standing Deer 112Changing Everything 113Da Capo 114Not-Yet 115Three Foxes by the Edge of the Field at Twilight 116Leaf 117Hope and Love 118Late Prayer 119Each Happiness Ringed by Lions 120Each Moment a White Bull Steps Shining into the World 121Orange Oil in Darkness 122The Sweetness of Apples, of Figs 123Wine Grapes for Breakfast 124Bees 125Lake and Maple 126Milk 128Jasmine 130The Poet 131Blind Fate Walking on Ice in the Woods 132The Bearded Woman 133Spell for Inviting-in the New Soul 134Spell to Be Said Before Sleep 135Spell to Be Said Upon Departure 136Three Times My Life Has Opened 137from GIVEN SUGAR, GIVEN SALT (2001)The Envoy 141Red Berries 142Apple 143A Hand 144Habit 145Rebus 146Waking This Morning Dreamless After Long Sleep 147Bobcats, Beetles, Owls 148Great Powers Once Raged Through Your Body 149The Contract 150Red Onion, Cherries, Boiling Potatoes, Milk— 151This Was Once a Love Poem 152Button 153Inflection Finally Ungraspable by Grammar 154In Praise of Coldness 155Happiness Is Harder 156Like an Ant Carrying Her Bits of Leaf or Sand 157Pillow 158Poem with Two Endings 160“Nothing Lasts” 161Self-Portrait in a Borrowed Cabin 162All Evening, Each Time I Started to Say It 163Ladder 164Balance 165A Cedary Fragrance 166Identity 167For Horses, Horseflies 168Moment 169Speed and Perfection 170Optimism 171Tree 172The Silence 173Sleep 175Ink 178Metempsychosis 181from AFTER (2006)After Long Silence 185Theology 186Pyracantha and Plum 187Dog and Bear 188The Woodpecker Keeps Returning 189Vilnius 190To Judgment: An Assay 191To Opinion: An Assay 193Ryoanji: An Assay 194“Of”: An Assay 194To Speech: An Assay 195Possibility: An Assay 198Against Certainty 199Those Who Cannot Act 200The Double 201I Imagine Myself in Time 202Late Self-Portrait by Rembrandt 203The Heat of Autumn 204Burlap Sack 205The Monk Stood Beside a Wheelbarrow 206[Ten Pebbles] 207Global Warming 207The Complaint 207Maple 207Lemon 207Tool Use in Animals 207To Sneezing 208Why Bodhidharma Went to Motel 6 208A Class Almost Empty 208Sentence 208Red Scarf 209In a Room with Five People, Six Griefs 210“It is Night. It is Very Dark.” 211The Promise 212The Bell Zygmunt 213The Dead Do Not Want Us Dead 214It Was Like This: You Were Happy 215from COME, THIEF (2011)French Horn 219First Light Edging Cirrus 220The Decision 221Vinegar and Oil 222Narrowness 223Sheep 224Perishable, It Said 225Love in August 226Bruises 227The Promise 228China 229If Truth Is the Lure, Humans Are Fishes 230Seawater Stiffens Cloth 231Washing Doorknobs 232Heat and Desperation 233Alzheimer’s 234Green-Striped Melons 235All the Difficult Hours and Minutes 236The Present 237[Thirteen Pebbles] 238Like Moonlight Seen in a Well 238Mountain and Mouse 238Memorial 238Everything Has Two Endings 238The Cloudy Vase 238The Lost Love Poems of Sappho 239It Must Be Leaves 239The Perfection of Loss 239The Visible Heat 240Rainstorm Visibly Shining in the Left-out Spoon of a Leaf 240Sonoma Fire 240Night and Day 240Opening the Hands Between Here and Here 241A Blessing for Wedding 242Come, Thief 242For the Lobaria, Usnea, Witches’ Hair, Map Lichen, BeardLichen, Ground Lichen, Shield Lichen 243A Small-Sized Mystery 244Contentment 245The Egg Had Frozen, an Accident.I Thought of My Life. 246The Kind Man 247A Day Is Vast 248Stone and Knife 249Pompeii 250Suitcase 251My Luck 252A Hand Is Shaped for What It Holds or Makes 253I Ran Out Naked in the Sun 254The Supple Deer 255from THE BEAUTY (2015)Fado 259My Skeleton 260My Proteins 262My Species 264My Eyes 265My Weather 266My Life Was the Size of My Life 267Many-Roofed Building in Moonlight 268Things Keep Sorting Themselves 269A Cottony Fate 270I Wanted Only a Little 271February 29 272As a Hammer Speaks to a Nail 273[Nine Pebbles] 274I Sat in the Sun 274The Woman, the Tiger 274I Know You Think I’ve Forgotten 274Still Life 274Quartz Clock 274Humbling: An Assay 275Away from Home, I Thought of the Exiled Poets 275Two Linen Handkerchiefs 275Anywhere You Look 275This Morning, I Wanted Four Legs 276Works & Loves 277A Chair in Snow 279Like the Small Hole by the Path-SideSomething Lives In 280In a Kitchen Where Mushrooms Were Washed 281All Souls 282Zero Plus Anything Is a World 283Entanglement 284Like Two Negative Numbers Multiplied by Rain 286from LEDGER (2020)Let Them Not Say 289The Bowl 290As If Hearing Heavy Furniture Moved on the FloorAbove Us 291Ants’ Nest 292Today, Another Universe 293Cataclysm 294Fecit 295Day Beginning with Seeing the International SpaceStation and a Full Moon over the Gulf of Mexicoand All Its Invisible Fishes 296Practice 297Words 298She Breathes in the Scent 299Engraving: World-Tree with an Empty Beehiveon One Branch 300Now a Darkness Is Coming 301My Doubt 302I wanted to be surprised. 304Vest 306Brocade 308Chance darkened me. 309Branch 310In Ulvik 311Advice to Myself 312A Ream of Paper 313The Paw-Paw 314Like Others 315[Ten Pebbles] 316My Longing 316My Hunger 316My Contentment 316Wild Turkeys 316Library Book with Many Precisely Turned-down Corners 317O Snail 317A Strategy 317Sixth Extinction 317Biophilia 317Obstacle 317The Little Soul Poems 318Amor Fati 318Kitchen 318Snow 319Harness 319Pelt 319Rust Flakes on Wind 320Wood. Salt. Tin. 320I Said 321Ledger 322On the Fifth Day 323(No Wind, No Rain) 324Ghazal for the End of Time 325Mountainal 326My Debt 327Acknowledgments 331Index of titles 333Biographical note 341

Jane Hirshfield, born in New York City and a longtime resident of northern California, is the author of ten collections of poetry, including The Asking: New & Selected Poems (US, Knopf, 2023; UK, Bloodaxe Books, 2024) and an earlier retrospective, Each Happiness Ringed by Lions (Bloodaxe Books, 2005). Her 2006 collection, After, was a Poetry Book Society Choice and shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Called 'one of the most important writers in the world today' (The New York Times Magazine) and one of American poetry's central spokespersons for the biosphere, she is the founder of an online and travelling interactive exhibit exploring the alliance of poetry and science. Also the author of Hiddenness, Surprise, Uncertainty: Three Generative Energies of Poetry (Newcastle/ Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures, 2008) and two now-classic US collections of essays, Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry (1997) and Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World (2015), she has edited and co-translated four books presenting the work of world poets from the deep past: the anthology Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women (1994); The Ink Dark Moon: Poems by Ono No Komachi and Izumi Shikibu (US, 1988; UK 2023) and The Heart of Haiku (2011), both with Mariko Aratani; and Mirabai: Ecstatic Poems (2004), with Robert Bly. Her own poetry has been translated into seventeen languages, including by Czesław Miłosz, who wrote the introduction to her 2002 Polish Selected Poems. Recipient of numerous literary awards, an elected member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and a former chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, she has taught at Stanford University, U.C. Berkeley, and elsewhere, and was the 2022 Seamus Heaney International Visiting Poetry Fellow at Queen’s University, Belfast.

Jane Hirshfield’s poems often feel like whole landscapes, graciously embracing the widest view and the tiniest sequins at once . . . Her longtime practice of Soto Zen Buddhism and her commitments to scientific knowledge and respect blend to create some of the most important poetry in the world today

• NEW POEMS (2023)Door and Sentence 3Counting, New Year’s Morning,What Powers Yet Remain to Me 4Tin 5Manifest 6Solstice 8Two Versions 9Today, When I Could Do Nothing 10Poem Holding a Wristwatch Belonging tothe Brazilian Poet Ferreira Gullar 12Each Morning Calls Us to PraiseThis World That Is Fleeting 13Two Kerosene Lanterns 14To Be a Person 15O, Responsibility 16[Five Pebbles] 17Here & Now 17Words Stop 17My Failure 17Chrysanthemum 17Vestment 17A Day Just Ends 18I asked to be lush, to be green. 19“A map grows no trees.” 20Thermopolium 21The Difficult Day 22Poem to Be Written by Magnet in Oil for an Exhibitat the Museum of Tomorrow in Rio de Janeiro 23Body, Mind of the Ransacked Thrift Shop 24Silence: An Assay 25My Window 26Invitation 27Again, I Enter My Life 28Mosses 30Letter to Adam Zagajewski 32Aubade Now of Earth 33I Would Like 34I open the window. 36from ALAYA (1971–1982)And / Yes in the Fields You 39December Solstice, ’73 40Everything That Is Not You 41from OF GRAVITY & ANGELS (1988)After Work 45In a Net of Blue and Gold 46Invocation 47To Hear the Falling World 48Dialogue 49To Drink 50Heat 51Tonight the Incalculable Stars 53For What Binds Us 54November, Remembering Voltaire 55Evening, Late Fall 56Osiris 57Woman in Red Coat 58Justice Without Passion 59October 20, 1983 60On Reading Brecht 61With Singing and Banners 62A Story 63Childhood, Horses, Rain 64Autumn Quince 65from THE OCTOBER PALACE (1994)The Kingdom 69Each Step 701973 71The Groundfall Pear 73Percolation 74Happiness 75The Love of Aged Horses 76Inspiration 77History as the Painter Bonnard 78Narcissus: Tel Aviv, Baghdad, California, February 1991 79The Wedding 80A Plenitude 82The Door 83Floor 84“Perceptibility Is a Kind of Attentiveness” 85This Love 87Even the Vanishing Housed 88A Sweetening All Around Me as It Falls 89Leaving the October Palace 90Autumn 91Ripeness 92The Weighing 93The Gods Are Not Large 94The Heart as Origami 95Meeting the Light Completely 96Within This Tree 97The Task 98Empedocles’ Physics 99The Stone of Heaven 100from THE LIVES OF THE HEART (1988)Secretive Heart 105Mule Heart 106Salt Heart 107On the Beach 108Heart Starting and Stopping in the Late Dark 109The World Loved by Moonlight 110The Adamantine Perfection of Desire 111Standing Deer 112Changing Everything 113Da Capo 114Not-Yet 115Three Foxes by the Edge of the Field at Twilight 116Leaf 117Hope and Love 118Late Prayer 119Each Happiness Ringed by Lions 120Each Moment a White Bull Steps Shining into the World 121Orange Oil in Darkness 122The Sweetness of Apples, of Figs 123Wine Grapes for Breakfast 124Bees 125Lake and Maple 126Milk 128Jasmine 130The Poet 131Blind Fate Walking on Ice in the Woods 132The Bearded Woman 133Spell for Inviting-in the New Soul 134Spell to Be Said Before Sleep 135Spell to Be Said Upon Departure 136Three Times My Life Has Opened 137from GIVEN SUGAR, GIVEN SALT (2001)The Envoy 141Red Berries 142Apple 143A Hand 144Habit 145Rebus 146Waking This Morning Dreamless After Long Sleep 147Bobcats, Beetles, Owls 148Great Powers Once Raged Through Your Body 149The Contract 150Red Onion, Cherries, Boiling Potatoes, Milk— 151This Was Once a Love Poem 152Button 153Inflection Finally Ungraspable by Grammar 154In Praise of Coldness 155Happiness Is Harder 156Like an Ant Carrying Her Bits of Leaf or Sand 157Pillow 158Poem with Two Endings 160“Nothing Lasts” 161Self-Portrait in a Borrowed Cabin 162All Evening, Each Time I Started to Say It 163Ladder 164Balance 165A Cedary Fragrance 166Identity 167For Horses, Horseflies 168Moment 169Speed and Perfection 170Optimism 171Tree 172The Silence 173Sleep 175Ink 178Metempsychosis 181from AFTER (2006)After Long Silence 185Theology 186Pyracantha and Plum 187Dog and Bear 188The Woodpecker Keeps Returning 189Vilnius 190To Judgment: An Assay 191To Opinion: An Assay 193Ryoanji: An Assay 194“Of”: An Assay 194To Speech: An Assay 195Possibility: An Assay 198Against Certainty 199Those Who Cannot Act 200The Double 201I Imagine Myself in Time 202Late Self-Portrait by Rembrandt 203The Heat of Autumn 204Burlap Sack 205The Monk Stood Beside a Wheelbarrow 206[Ten Pebbles] 207Global Warming 207The Complaint 207Maple 207Lemon 207Tool Use in Animals 207To Sneezing 208Why Bodhidharma Went to Motel 6 208A Class Almost Empty 208Sentence 208Red Scarf 209In a Room with Five People, Six Griefs 210“It is Night. It is Very Dark.” 211The Promise 212The Bell Zygmunt 213The Dead Do Not Want Us Dead 214It Was Like This: You Were Happy 215from COME, THIEF (2011)French Horn 219First Light Edging Cirrus 220The Decision 221Vinegar and Oil 222Narrowness 223Sheep 224Perishable, It Said 225Love in August 226Bruises 227The Promise 228China 229If Truth Is the Lure, Humans Are Fishes 230Seawater Stiffens Cloth 231Washing Doorknobs 232Heat and Desperation 233Alzheimer’s 234Green-Striped Melons 235All the Difficult Hours and Minutes 236The Present 237[Thirteen Pebbles] 238Like Moonlight Seen in a Well 238Mountain and Mouse 238Memorial 238Everything Has Two Endings 238The Cloudy Vase 238The Lost Love Poems of Sappho 239It Must Be Leaves 239The Perfection of Loss 239The Visible Heat 240Rainstorm Visibly Shining in the Left-out Spoon of a Leaf 240Sonoma Fire 240Night and Day 240Opening the Hands Between Here and Here 241A Blessing for Wedding 242Come, Thief 242For the Lobaria, Usnea, Witches’ Hair, Map Lichen, BeardLichen, Ground Lichen, Shield Lichen 243A Small-Sized Mystery 244Contentment 245The Egg Had Frozen, an Accident.I Thought of My Life. 246The Kind Man 247A Day Is Vast 248Stone and Knife 249Pompeii 250Suitcase 251My Luck 252A Hand Is Shaped for What It Holds or Makes 253I Ran Out Naked in the Sun 254The Supple Deer 255from THE BEAUTY (2015)Fado 259My Skeleton 260My Proteins 262My Species 264My Eyes 265My Weather 266My Life Was the Size of My Life 267Many-Roofed Building in Moonlight 268Things Keep Sorting Themselves 269A Cottony Fate 270I Wanted Only a Little 271February 29 272As a Hammer Speaks to a Nail 273[Nine Pebbles] 274I Sat in the Sun 274The Woman, the Tiger 274I Know You Think I’ve Forgotten 274Still Life 274Quartz Clock 274Humbling: An Assay 275Away from Home, I Thought of the Exiled Poets 275Two Linen Handkerchiefs 275Anywhere You Look 275This Morning, I Wanted Four Legs 276Works & Loves 277A Chair in Snow 279Like the Small Hole by the Path-SideSomething Lives In 280In a Kitchen Where Mushrooms Were Washed 281All Souls 282Zero Plus Anything Is a World 283Entanglement 284Like Two Negative Numbers Multiplied by Rain 286from LEDGER (2020)Let Them Not Say 289The Bowl 290As If Hearing Heavy Furniture Moved on the FloorAbove Us 291Ants’ Nest 292Today, Another Universe 293Cataclysm 294Fecit 295Day Beginning with Seeing the International SpaceStation and a Full Moon over the Gulf of Mexicoand All Its Invisible Fishes 296Practice 297Words 298She Breathes in the Scent 299Engraving: World-Tree with an Empty Beehiveon One Branch 300Now a Darkness Is Coming 301My Doubt 302I wanted to be surprised. 304Vest 306Brocade 308Chance darkened me. 309Branch 310In Ulvik 311Advice to Myself 312A Ream of Paper 313The Paw-Paw 314Like Others 315[Ten Pebbles] 316My Longing 316My Hunger 316My Contentment 316Wild Turkeys 316Library Book with Many Precisely Turned-down Corners 317O Snail 317A Strategy 317Sixth Extinction 317Biophilia 317Obstacle 317The Little Soul Poems 318Amor Fati 318Kitchen 318Snow 319Harness 319Pelt 319Rust Flakes on Wind 320Wood. Salt. Tin. 320I Said 321Ledger 322On the Fifth Day 323(No Wind, No Rain) 324Ghazal for the End of Time 325Mountainal 326My Debt 327Acknowledgments 331Index of titles 333Biographical note 341