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Poem Title   Author
After Dinner
Jan. 9, 2007
 
After Fifty Years
Aug. 14, 2009
 
After Forty Years of Marriage, She Tries a New Recipe for Hamburger Hot Dish
Sep. 19, 1997
Aug. 19, 1998
 
 
After Midnight
Mar. 27, 2001
 
After Our Daughter's Wedding
Nov. 19, 2008
 
After Our Wedding
Dec. 31, 2010
 
After Psalm 137
Dec. 7, 2009
 
After Reading There Might Be an Infinite Number of Dimensions
Apr. 9, 2011
 
After Reading T'ao Ch'ing, I wander Untethered Through the Short Grass
Aug. 31, 2007
 
After Ritsos
Oct. 27, 2011
 
After School on Ordinary Days
Jan. 8, 2003
Jan. 8, 2004
Jan. 8, 2008
 
After Spending the Morning Baking Bread
Nov. 2, 2014
 
After T'ao Ch'ien
Sep. 17, 1993
 
After the
May. 7, 1998
 
After the Argument
Aug. 26, 1998
 
After the Heat Wave
Jun. 6, 2002
 
After the Ice Storm My Son Does Not Come Home
Apr. 16, 2009
 
After the Rain
Apr. 23, 2007
 
After the Test Said Yes
Mar. 4, 2006
 
After the Wedding
Dec. 12, 2012
 
After We Saw What There Was to See
Nov. 22, 2010
 
 
 
After Years in the Mountains
Sep. 16, 1994
 

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