WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.520 align:middle line:90% 00:00:04.520 --> 00:00:11.210 align:middle line:84% The muse loves love, which is good, because at so many times, 00:00:11.210 --> 00:00:15.650 align:middle line:84% and on so many topics, she is silent and sulking. 00:00:15.650 --> 00:00:18.250 align:middle line:90% 00:00:18.250 --> 00:00:22.000 align:middle line:84% The artist asks the muse, honey, what's wrong? 00:00:22.000 --> 00:00:27.000 align:middle line:84% Nothing, said the muse, but the artist 00:00:27.000 --> 00:00:30.330 align:middle line:84% knows there's no nothing about it 00:00:30.330 --> 00:00:33.480 align:middle line:84% and scrambles to write a mysterious wrong. 00:00:33.480 --> 00:00:37.680 align:middle line:84% But should the artist fall in love, deeply or at least 00:00:37.680 --> 00:00:40.020 align:middle line:84% vitally, the muse forgets her grudges 00:00:40.020 --> 00:00:42.550 align:middle line:90% and sings in the shower. 00:00:42.550 --> 00:00:45.640 align:middle line:84% She's written so many songs, stories, dances, and poems 00:00:45.640 --> 00:00:49.540 align:middle line:84% about love, that when you fall in love, when you really 00:00:49.540 --> 00:00:53.640 align:middle line:90% fall in love, you'll know it. 00:00:53.640 --> 00:00:56.280 align:middle line:84% Shakespeare and Otis Redding already have told you about it. 00:00:56.280 --> 00:00:58.920 align:middle line:90% 00:00:58.920 --> 00:01:03.860 align:middle line:84% You feel like a ballerina dancing Odette in Swan Lake. 00:01:03.860 --> 00:01:09.600 align:middle line:90% 00:01:09.600 --> 00:01:14.190 align:middle line:84% Your whole life you've known the role. 00:01:14.190 --> 00:01:20.000 align:middle line:84% Every step, every phrase in the score. 00:01:20.000 --> 00:01:22.760 align:middle line:84% You've always wanted to dance this dance, 00:01:22.760 --> 00:01:32.670 align:middle line:84% and now that you are Odette, you are as old as time and new 00:01:32.670 --> 00:01:37.670 align:middle line:84% as a bird song coming in your window, 00:01:37.670 --> 00:01:43.540 align:middle line:84% and nothing is better than just right now. 00:01:43.540 --> 00:02:05.990 align:middle line:90% 00:02:05.990 --> 00:02:06.907 align:middle line:90% When. 00:02:06.907 --> 00:02:10.134 align:middle line:90% 00:02:10.134 --> 00:02:10.634 align:middle line:90% How. 00:02:10.634 --> 00:02:11.134 align:middle line:90% Who. 00:02:11.134 --> 00:02:18.220 align:middle line:90% 00:02:18.220 --> 00:02:18.720 align:middle line:90% That. 00:02:18.720 --> 00:02:21.610 align:middle line:90% 00:02:21.610 --> 00:02:22.110 align:middle line:90% Then. 00:02:22.110 --> 00:02:24.820 align:middle line:90% 00:02:24.820 --> 00:02:25.320 align:middle line:90% Now. 00:02:25.320 --> 00:02:28.135 align:middle line:90% 00:02:28.135 --> 00:02:28.635 align:middle line:90% You. 00:02:28.635 --> 00:02:33.765 align:middle line:90% 00:02:33.765 --> 00:02:34.265 align:middle line:90% Great. 00:02:34.265 --> 00:02:36.755 align:middle line:90% 00:02:36.755 --> 00:02:37.255 align:middle line:90% Heart. 00:02:37.255 --> 00:02:39.635 align:middle line:90% 00:02:39.635 --> 00:02:40.135 align:middle line:90% See. 00:02:40.135 --> 00:02:42.970 align:middle line:90% 00:02:42.970 --> 00:02:43.470 align:middle line:90% Chart. 00:02:43.470 --> 00:02:46.600 align:middle line:90% 00:02:46.600 --> 00:02:49.478 align:middle line:90% Me. 00:02:49.478 --> 00:02:49.978 align:middle line:90% Again. 00:02:49.978 --> 00:02:53.930 align:middle line:90% 00:02:53.930 --> 00:02:54.710 align:middle line:90% "Postulate"-- 00:02:54.710 --> 00:02:57.880 align:middle line:90% 00:02:57.880 --> 00:03:01.990 align:middle line:84% If a web's the spider's consequence, 00:03:01.990 --> 00:03:07.330 align:middle line:84% if water wears a skipped stone's name, then in me, 00:03:07.330 --> 00:03:08.710 align:middle line:90% there is evidence of you. 00:03:08.710 --> 00:03:11.410 align:middle line:90% 00:03:11.410 --> 00:03:18.850 align:middle line:84% If a slug leaves its root behind and a tire abandons treads, 00:03:18.850 --> 00:03:20.440 align:middle line:90% then I wear a thread of you. 00:03:20.440 --> 00:03:23.050 align:middle line:90% 00:03:23.050 --> 00:03:29.410 align:middle line:84% If cement can bear a hand print and the road ruts over time, 00:03:29.410 --> 00:03:30.805 align:middle line:90% then I am a hint of you. 00:03:30.805 --> 00:03:33.580 align:middle line:90% 00:03:33.580 --> 00:03:37.030 align:middle line:84% If the wind pulls the weather vane, 00:03:37.030 --> 00:03:40.630 align:middle line:84% if the weather vane follows the wind, then 00:03:40.630 --> 00:03:42.580 align:middle line:90% here I strain for you. 00:03:42.580 --> 00:03:45.190 align:middle line:90% 00:03:45.190 --> 00:03:49.450 align:middle line:84% If the shore marks a history of tides 00:03:49.450 --> 00:03:53.710 align:middle line:84% and the tides map the moon's longing, 00:03:53.710 --> 00:03:58.300 align:middle line:90% then I am occupied by you. 00:03:58.300 --> 00:04:06.040 align:middle line:84% If love is visible in a face, if an expression casts a shadow, 00:04:06.040 --> 00:04:09.025 align:middle line:84% then in me, see the trace of you. 00:04:09.025 --> 00:04:13.060 align:middle line:90% 00:04:13.060 --> 00:04:14.590 align:middle line:90% "Love Note"-- 00:04:14.590 --> 00:04:15.910 align:middle line:90% Late night ghazal. 00:04:15.910 --> 00:04:19.790 align:middle line:90% 00:04:19.790 --> 00:04:24.890 align:middle line:84% Behind the house and eaves tonight a backward glance 00:04:24.890 --> 00:04:28.160 align:middle line:90% of ease tonight. 00:04:28.160 --> 00:04:33.710 align:middle line:84% The harvest moon puts on her horns and the sky blushes 00:04:33.710 --> 00:04:34.775 align:middle line:90% cerise tonight. 00:04:34.775 --> 00:04:38.090 align:middle line:90% 00:04:38.090 --> 00:04:42.350 align:middle line:84% So sun and day at last upend, and light 00:04:42.350 --> 00:04:46.670 align:middle line:90% wears the chemise of night. 00:04:46.670 --> 00:04:51.170 align:middle line:84% Lightning throws a switch and there are 00:04:51.170 --> 00:04:53.210 align:middle line:90% stars in the valise of night. 00:04:53.210 --> 00:04:56.030 align:middle line:90% 00:04:56.030 --> 00:05:00.020 align:middle line:84% If I were here and you were here, 00:05:00.020 --> 00:05:05.210 align:middle line:90% together we'd appease the night. 00:05:05.210 --> 00:05:09.560 align:middle line:84% If I were three and you were four, 00:05:09.560 --> 00:05:11.390 align:middle line:90% we'd be the Pleiades tonight. 00:05:11.390 --> 00:05:14.520 align:middle line:90% 00:05:14.520 --> 00:05:17.480 align:middle line:84% Meet the corner of West and Wild, 00:05:17.480 --> 00:05:20.975 align:middle line:84% and I'll be your sweet breeze tonight. 00:05:20.975 --> 00:05:23.660 align:middle line:90% 00:05:23.660 --> 00:05:29.865 align:middle line:84% Take wind and wing, be off for flight instead of the trapeze 00:05:29.865 --> 00:05:30.365 align:middle line:90% tonight. 00:05:30.365 --> 00:05:33.170 align:middle line:90% 00:05:33.170 --> 00:05:37.750 align:middle line:84% I love the night, the hat of every day. 00:05:37.750 --> 00:05:58.334 align:middle line:90%