WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:12.230 align:middle line:90% 00:00:12.230 --> 00:00:18.290 align:middle line:84% This is a poem called "Blue Does Yellow" 00:00:18.290 --> 00:00:24.540 align:middle line:84% in certain slants, which I know was written quite a long time 00:00:24.540 --> 00:00:25.040 align:middle line:90% ago. 00:00:25.040 --> 00:00:30.380 align:middle line:84% Because my daughter, Kate, who's a junior in college 00:00:30.380 --> 00:00:35.120 align:middle line:84% now was a young baby of two days when 00:00:35.120 --> 00:00:37.760 align:middle line:84% we had to take her back into the hospital because 00:00:37.760 --> 00:00:40.520 align:middle line:84% of her yellow color, of her jaundiced color. 00:00:40.520 --> 00:00:46.250 align:middle line:84% Which is pretty common, but totally freaked me out. 00:00:46.250 --> 00:00:48.350 align:middle line:84% And I remember sitting up all night 00:00:48.350 --> 00:00:51.650 align:middle line:84% and watching her under the blue light. 00:00:51.650 --> 00:00:55.550 align:middle line:84% So the title is "Blue Does Yellow" referring to light. 00:00:55.550 --> 00:01:01.290 align:middle line:84% And I don't even know what I was doing in the poems-- 00:01:01.290 --> 00:01:05.750 align:middle line:84% spending hours watching a baby move, just move 00:01:05.750 --> 00:01:07.160 align:middle line:90% and tumbling back and forth. 00:01:07.160 --> 00:01:09.828 align:middle line:84% And I wanted to make a poem which moved that way. 00:01:09.828 --> 00:01:11.870 align:middle line:84% I didn't really care what it meant, what it said. 00:01:11.870 --> 00:01:16.130 align:middle line:84% I just wanted to move that way sort of like music moves. 00:01:16.130 --> 00:01:22.220 align:middle line:84% Pit or pitter pat, and is that a drover and an open door? 00:01:22.220 --> 00:01:28.730 align:middle line:84% A coup in the corner, border of a telling a legend in time. 00:01:28.730 --> 00:01:34.280 align:middle line:84% Ink spilled, much gentle forest origin, corner of wood. 00:01:34.280 --> 00:01:35.180 align:middle line:90% A step. 00:01:35.180 --> 00:01:36.170 align:middle line:90% A step. 00:01:36.170 --> 00:01:40.520 align:middle line:84% A step, and a turn into a green and clear, 00:01:40.520 --> 00:01:46.390 align:middle line:84% where something is and, and string to a point. 00:01:46.390 --> 00:01:50.080 align:middle line:84% An edge and a trust, a line to thrust 00:01:50.080 --> 00:01:54.930 align:middle line:84% to a plane with and with a call toward front only. 00:01:54.930 --> 00:02:00.890 align:middle line:84% Only not first or second not only the reward. 00:02:00.890 --> 00:02:04.750 align:middle line:90% The reward being a told time. 00:02:04.750 --> 00:02:11.740 align:middle line:84% This was taken front lens to leans to one carrot, a stick, 00:02:11.740 --> 00:02:16.210 align:middle line:84% and a bitter, bitter foraging, still align, 00:02:16.210 --> 00:02:21.250 align:middle line:90% and remind, still a line. 00:02:21.250 --> 00:02:26.185 align:middle line:84% Eyeglasses are guardians to what, to what? 00:02:26.185 --> 00:02:30.010 align:middle line:84% From mine to yours upon a blanket and a stretch 00:02:30.010 --> 00:02:34.450 align:middle line:84% to make a round, around, our round. 00:02:34.450 --> 00:02:39.280 align:middle line:84% Clench, stretch, clench, stretch, turn formerly, 00:02:39.280 --> 00:02:40.780 align:middle line:90% a knee formally. 00:02:40.780 --> 00:02:44.980 align:middle line:84% She forms an ally under a tree, under the under, 00:02:44.980 --> 00:02:54.610 align:middle line:84% light contains a skin and yellow does blue to you remove, blue. 00:02:54.610 --> 00:02:58.270 align:middle line:84% A white room to look into lay down, down 00:02:58.270 --> 00:03:03.430 align:middle line:84% form a line, bent from the hip and arm alarmed to the south 00:03:03.430 --> 00:03:06.700 align:middle line:84% runs into cloth and clear edges knock. 00:03:06.700 --> 00:03:11.480 align:middle line:84% Knock on the wall, a weight and tall longing to a fall. 00:03:11.480 --> 00:03:16.630 align:middle line:84% Weight rises announce, announce risk into merriment. 00:03:16.630 --> 00:03:22.525 align:middle line:84% Apart aspirate and mark a noise and reach, a reach for. 00:03:22.525 --> 00:03:26.880 align:middle line:90% 00:03:26.880 --> 00:03:30.450 align:middle line:84% Around and a side to side to side from the beginning, 00:03:30.450 --> 00:03:33.900 align:middle line:84% from the middle humming a song, a mourning song, 00:03:33.900 --> 00:03:36.510 align:middle line:90% to the station alive to home. 00:03:36.510 --> 00:03:40.680 align:middle line:84% Find the dog, mind the door after a day and a night 00:03:40.680 --> 00:03:44.190 align:middle line:84% after to please the please the tongue. 00:03:44.190 --> 00:03:49.725 align:middle line:84% After hours amused the minute prior, watch eyes watchful. 00:03:49.725 --> 00:03:52.900 align:middle line:90% 00:03:52.900 --> 00:03:56.590 align:middle line:84% Come and call occasion, corner upon square. 00:03:56.590 --> 00:03:59.680 align:middle line:84% One for toss to toss out, not out. 00:03:59.680 --> 00:04:03.010 align:middle line:84% Then star on blanket, answer with head, 00:04:03.010 --> 00:04:07.390 align:middle line:84% eyes up follow words across a cross stick. 00:04:07.390 --> 00:04:11.440 align:middle line:84% No puzzle petals around the fold or not. 00:04:11.440 --> 00:04:15.550 align:middle line:84% Forgive is known and can't be fiddle, fed. 00:04:15.550 --> 00:04:20.695 align:middle line:84% Harmonics include a clue led to meadow, Eddie." 00:04:20.695 --> 00:04:25.430 align:middle line:90% 00:04:25.430 --> 00:04:28.070 align:middle line:90% Skipping to the last of these. 00:04:28.070 --> 00:04:32.990 align:middle line:84% "Happy to breast, to move to room, answer, cry, why. 00:04:32.990 --> 00:04:36.530 align:middle line:84% Food or dream again from other than, other 00:04:36.530 --> 00:04:39.350 align:middle line:90% sings night to rest upon skin. 00:04:39.350 --> 00:04:43.370 align:middle line:84% Skin upon again to lay eyes, lay eyes 00:04:43.370 --> 00:04:48.710 align:middle line:84% upon another, not a room alone, a home two, three 00:04:48.710 --> 00:04:51.560 align:middle line:90% and everything through moves. 00:04:51.560 --> 00:04:58.360 align:middle line:84% Hopeful sing to corners and, and, and, and. 00:04:58.360 --> 00:05:00.000 align:middle line:90%