I feel this poem captures the chapters meaning because of what isn’t said. Hirschfield explained that what isn’t said can be just as important in poetry, and in this poem it seems there is a sudden skip in the narrative after the fourth line. From there the poem becomes more and more vague in explicit story, but forthcoming in emotion, imagery, and metaphorical language. Thus, I felt this poem worked well as an example of indirection.
I thought about selecting this one! I think part of the key of what Hirschfield refers to as indirection is that it doesn't say things explicitly, or it uses unexpected images to say what it has to say, or that it arrives at those conclusions through unorthodox paths of inquiry. This poem is a great example of all of those ideas: it chooses unusual words that are obviously thick with meaning, but that meaning is not immediately apparent.
Teresa, I totally agree. I also noticed the shift in tone and it made me wonder if that was supposed to represent a shift in time. While there is ample emotion in the first handful of lines in the poem, there seems to be a lot more implied emotion in the rest of the poem which is what Hirschfield was trying to get at in this chapter.