After.

Wyeth, Study of River Valley, n/d

And you will go where crows go

and you will know what the crows know.

After you have learned all their secrets
and think the way they do and your love
caresses their feathers like the walls
of a midnight clock, they will fly away
and take you with them.

And you will go where crows go
and you will know what the crows know.

Richard Brautigan, from "Crow Maiden"