WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.990 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.990 --> 00:00:04.830 align:middle line:84% I've been writing the same poem all my life, 00:00:04.830 --> 00:00:08.320 align:middle line:84% and it's gone through a variety of stages, 00:00:08.320 --> 00:00:13.140 align:middle line:84% a few versions of what you can find on that table over there. 00:00:13.140 --> 00:00:15.540 align:middle line:84% I'm going to read, for the first time tonight, 00:00:15.540 --> 00:00:20.010 align:middle line:84% an extended portion of the next stage, which 00:00:20.010 --> 00:00:27.110 align:middle line:84% is called "Universe" for a number of complicated reasons. 00:00:27.110 --> 00:00:29.360 align:middle line:84% And this particular section, the first section, 00:00:29.360 --> 00:00:30.590 align:middle line:90% is called "Revelator." 00:00:30.590 --> 00:00:34.155 align:middle line:90% 00:00:34.155 --> 00:00:35.405 align:middle line:90% And I found a couple of typos. 00:00:35.405 --> 00:00:37.880 align:middle line:84% Because it's the first time I've ever read this before, 00:00:37.880 --> 00:00:40.700 align:middle line:84% I found a couple of typos practicing it this morning, 00:00:40.700 --> 00:00:43.430 align:middle line:84% and I'm taking my pen out just in case a couple more 00:00:43.430 --> 00:00:44.180 align:middle line:90% jump out at me. 00:00:44.180 --> 00:00:49.030 align:middle line:90% 00:00:49.030 --> 00:00:52.400 align:middle line:84% I don't think I need to say any more than that. 00:00:52.400 --> 00:00:58.190 align:middle line:84% "Words torn, unseen, unseemly scene, some far suburb's mall 00:00:58.190 --> 00:00:59.030 align:middle line:90% lot. 00:00:59.030 --> 00:01:01.430 align:middle line:84% Summer's theme-- this year's humid. 00:01:01.430 --> 00:01:03.050 align:middle line:90% To sweat is to know. 00:01:03.050 --> 00:01:07.050 align:middle line:84% Pen squeezed too tight yields ink as blood or pus. 00:01:07.050 --> 00:01:11.330 align:middle line:84% So the phrase scraped, removed, offending thine eye, 00:01:11.330 --> 00:01:13.010 align:middle line:90% 'Outsource Bush.' 00:01:13.010 --> 00:01:14.990 align:middle line:90% Against which, insource what? 00:01:14.990 --> 00:01:16.340 align:middle line:90% Who will do it? 00:01:16.340 --> 00:01:20.540 align:middle line:84% Most terrible predicate-- high above mountains snowcapped. 00:01:20.540 --> 00:01:24.830 align:middle line:84% Even in August, in-flight motion picture Eternal Sunshine 00:01:24.830 --> 00:01:27.950 align:middle line:84% of the Spotless Mind infuriates many. 00:01:27.950 --> 00:01:32.210 align:middle line:84% No action, no funny, plot too dense to follow. 00:01:32.210 --> 00:01:35.750 align:middle line:84% Unless-- unless mind's eye gives attention. 00:01:35.750 --> 00:01:38.090 align:middle line:90% First blackbird signals many-- 00:01:38.090 --> 00:01:39.280 align:middle line:90% synecdoche. 00:01:39.280 --> 00:01:43.250 align:middle line:84% Bumblebee wonders, am I his flower? 00:01:43.250 --> 00:01:46.340 align:middle line:84% The one-hour shopping, and the vandals fled. 00:01:46.340 --> 00:01:48.770 align:middle line:84% Him, we'll know not, never confront. 00:01:48.770 --> 00:01:50.630 align:middle line:90% So recall the next day. 00:01:50.630 --> 00:01:53.450 align:middle line:84% That anger directed at complexity 00:01:53.450 --> 00:01:55.520 align:middle line:90% as we deplaned in Seattle. 00:01:55.520 --> 00:01:58.910 align:middle line:84% Old battle never won, never gonna. 00:01:58.910 --> 00:02:04.010 align:middle line:84% Sit now, still beside Dungeness River, to spot quail hopping 00:02:04.010 --> 00:02:05.780 align:middle line:90% about this untrimmed garden. 00:02:05.780 --> 00:02:11.570 align:middle line:84% As dog walkers circle back, jet trails in dawn sky thread cloud 00:02:11.570 --> 00:02:14.330 align:middle line:84% wisps, shadows sharp in the mountains. 00:02:14.330 --> 00:02:18.350 align:middle line:84% Pen's cap placed aloft at the far end of the shaft. 00:02:18.350 --> 00:02:22.370 align:middle line:84% Black ink bleeds into yellowy paper, deep in the fiber. 00:02:22.370 --> 00:02:24.770 align:middle line:90% Lines spreading as they dry. 00:02:24.770 --> 00:02:28.370 align:middle line:84% Hours harbor us, hold the body still a while. 00:02:28.370 --> 00:02:32.060 align:middle line:84% Eyes, ears all fading as if to withdraw. 00:02:32.060 --> 00:02:34.310 align:middle line:90% Old ivy hides the fountain. 00:02:34.310 --> 00:02:36.590 align:middle line:84% Mountain half-peeking through cedars 00:02:36.590 --> 00:02:40.250 align:middle line:84% green against the morning's pale blue sky. 00:02:40.250 --> 00:02:44.240 align:middle line:84% My fingernail now etched with a permanent rich lavender. 00:02:44.240 --> 00:02:48.620 align:middle line:84% As a crop smells sweet, but I'm staring west-southwest 00:02:48.620 --> 00:02:50.960 align:middle line:90% as the sun behind me rises. 00:02:50.960 --> 00:02:54.710 align:middle line:84% Cloud catchers, red, pink, then brightens into white. 00:02:54.710 --> 00:02:58.100 align:middle line:90% Clock bangs 10 at 6:00 AM. 00:02:58.100 --> 00:02:59.600 align:middle line:90% Its bell flat. 00:02:59.600 --> 00:03:03.110 align:middle line:84% Quail still at the garden's rim ignores 00:03:03.110 --> 00:03:06.320 align:middle line:84% buzz of red, green hummingbird overhead. 00:03:06.320 --> 00:03:09.440 align:middle line:84% Then, minutes later, clouds dissolve. 00:03:09.440 --> 00:03:12.800 align:middle line:84% The near sky bare, boys by the trampoline 00:03:12.800 --> 00:03:16.430 align:middle line:84% in the dark discuss religion, say belief. 00:03:16.430 --> 00:03:20.780 align:middle line:84% Here the park faces west making that Mount Baker. 00:03:20.780 --> 00:03:23.450 align:middle line:84% Girls run naked through the sprinkler. 00:03:23.450 --> 00:03:28.640 align:middle line:84% Neo-retro-pseudo-hippies mimic the Amish, sans modesty. 00:03:28.640 --> 00:03:32.180 align:middle line:84% Boys in tie-dye skip stones into the bay. 00:03:32.180 --> 00:03:34.940 align:middle line:90% Eternity in the present only. 00:03:34.940 --> 00:03:39.650 align:middle line:84% I shut my eyes, inhale deeply to hear five speakers 00:03:39.650 --> 00:03:41.420 align:middle line:90% simultaneous yatter. 00:03:41.420 --> 00:03:44.450 align:middle line:84% Squirrels up high in the cedars bark. 00:03:44.450 --> 00:03:50.630 align:middle line:84% Dog, golden terrier blend, all taut muscles, sinew or bone 00:03:50.630 --> 00:03:55.310 align:middle line:84% jaw, pauses midair in flight just ahead of the frisbee's 00:03:55.310 --> 00:03:56.120 align:middle line:90% grasp. 00:03:56.120 --> 00:03:58.310 align:middle line:90% Biplane low over the water. 00:03:58.310 --> 00:03:59.870 align:middle line:90% Now you hear its engine. 00:03:59.870 --> 00:04:04.370 align:middle line:84% One sock pulled high, other low about the ankles. 00:04:04.370 --> 00:04:09.890 align:middle line:84% Deliberately I paused two poems three pages before book's end. 00:04:09.890 --> 00:04:12.830 align:middle line:90% First growl of plane's motor. 00:04:12.830 --> 00:04:16.040 align:middle line:84% Sun, higher now, contracts shadow. 00:04:16.040 --> 00:04:19.790 align:middle line:84% Dandelion froth blows over cut grass. 00:04:19.790 --> 00:04:23.870 align:middle line:84% Spotted white tops of clover, something deep purple, 00:04:23.870 --> 00:04:26.780 align:middle line:84% bell-shaped, nameless, at least to me. 00:04:26.780 --> 00:04:29.060 align:middle line:90% I am what i am. 00:04:29.060 --> 00:04:33.080 align:middle line:84% Chewing endlessly until I realize, I'll never swallow. 00:04:33.080 --> 00:04:33.920 align:middle line:90% Whatever. 00:04:33.920 --> 00:04:35.150 align:middle line:90% Jay's bark. 00:04:35.150 --> 00:04:38.600 align:middle line:84% First fog is deepest when trail ends 00:04:38.600 --> 00:04:40.880 align:middle line:90% at first bend in the river. 00:04:40.880 --> 00:04:44.030 align:middle line:84% This in six weeks will all be swollen. 00:04:44.030 --> 00:04:46.820 align:middle line:84% Salmon, frantic in their competition. 00:04:46.820 --> 00:04:48.410 align:middle line:90% Men also. 00:04:48.410 --> 00:04:51.530 align:middle line:84% On the wire-grid door screen, various bugs 00:04:51.530 --> 00:04:54.980 align:middle line:84% alight at dawn, drawn by the interior light. 00:04:54.980 --> 00:04:58.850 align:middle line:84% Something long with wings, something no more than a speck 00:04:58.850 --> 00:05:01.820 align:middle line:84% with legs, I scream, you scream, we all 00:05:01.820 --> 00:05:05.090 align:middle line:84% scream for that which is unnamable, unquenchable, 00:05:05.090 --> 00:05:09.230 align:middle line:84% inconsolable, deep in one's chest, surrounding the heart. 00:05:09.230 --> 00:05:11.750 align:middle line:90% Art is a mode of stalking. 00:05:11.750 --> 00:05:16.400 align:middle line:84% Balk at any configuration, at what's inescapably omitted. 00:05:16.400 --> 00:05:19.790 align:middle line:84% At Monticello I very nearly wept, 00:05:19.790 --> 00:05:22.670 align:middle line:84% to imagine just once the president 00:05:22.670 --> 00:05:25.160 align:middle line:84% as the smartest, most questioning, 00:05:25.160 --> 00:05:27.020 align:middle line:90% most rigorous of all. 00:05:27.020 --> 00:05:29.090 align:middle line:90% No, that's not it either. 00:05:29.090 --> 00:05:33.890 align:middle line:84% Seeing, hands shielding brow, the trail ahead is empty. 00:05:33.890 --> 00:05:36.560 align:middle line:84% The man stops to unleash his dogs. 00:05:36.560 --> 00:05:38.750 align:middle line:90% Mist rises from the river. 00:05:38.750 --> 00:05:42.830 align:middle line:84% Bland competency distributed equally among hundreds 00:05:42.830 --> 00:05:44.810 align:middle line:90% begets only rebellion. 00:05:44.810 --> 00:05:48.035 align:middle line:84% What winnowing from the first book to the next, 00:05:48.035 --> 00:05:51.710 align:middle line:84% the nest mountainside garden fountain, yellowlegs 00:05:51.710 --> 00:05:55.160 align:middle line:84% and killdeer searching the mud for tasties. 00:05:55.160 --> 00:06:00.050 align:middle line:84% My throat, you say, is closing up, but for albuterol. 00:06:00.050 --> 00:06:02.450 align:middle line:90% Take a deep breath, sip tea. 00:06:02.450 --> 00:06:05.960 align:middle line:84% Someone in the forest is walking a miniature poodle. 00:06:05.960 --> 00:06:10.430 align:middle line:84% An old woman, now blind, finds each chore takes longer. 00:06:10.430 --> 00:06:13.460 align:middle line:84% An epic quest to fetch groceries. 00:06:13.460 --> 00:06:18.500 align:middle line:84% Half a day wrecked if the doctor forgets to sign the Rx. 00:06:18.500 --> 00:06:21.890 align:middle line:84% Each walker's gate, pace is so different. 00:06:21.890 --> 00:06:25.580 align:middle line:84% Muscle and skeleton negotiates gravity, years. 00:06:25.580 --> 00:06:30.260 align:middle line:84% Teen girl radiates lust, post-Britney mascara, hooker 00:06:30.260 --> 00:06:30.920 align:middle line:90% look. 00:06:30.920 --> 00:06:34.190 align:middle line:84% Alongside, a second woman, her grandmother, 00:06:34.190 --> 00:06:36.320 align:middle line:90% at the pharmacy pick-up window. 00:06:36.320 --> 00:06:40.700 align:middle line:84% In a town so small, Safeway has the lone Starbucks. 00:06:40.700 --> 00:06:43.160 align:middle line:90% Eventually books oxidized. 00:06:43.160 --> 00:06:45.710 align:middle line:84% Words themselves, learned to resist, 00:06:45.710 --> 00:06:48.200 align:middle line:90% clouds drift in from sea. 00:06:48.200 --> 00:06:53.240 align:middle line:84% Glaciers on Mount Olympus visible from atop Hurricane 00:06:53.240 --> 00:06:53.900 align:middle line:90% Ridge. 00:06:53.900 --> 00:06:56.210 align:middle line:90% Yet the danger is sunburn. 00:06:56.210 --> 00:06:59.270 align:middle line:84% Blue grouse startles up from the reeds. 00:06:59.270 --> 00:07:02.570 align:middle line:84% Reed valleys below as rivers text. 00:07:02.570 --> 00:07:05.660 align:middle line:84% Now forgotten stack of books, half-read 00:07:05.660 --> 00:07:07.580 align:middle line:90% on the table dwindles. 00:07:07.580 --> 00:07:11.660 align:middle line:84% Bald eagle atop cedar rests, just for a moment. 00:07:11.660 --> 00:07:14.000 align:middle line:90% Whirligig puns up Tempest. 00:07:14.000 --> 00:07:16.220 align:middle line:90% Yes, digit, dig it. 00:07:16.220 --> 00:07:19.250 align:middle line:84% Always make mistakes is the program. 00:07:19.250 --> 00:07:22.190 align:middle line:84% Eagle-eye no good for chipmunk future. 00:07:22.190 --> 00:07:23.690 align:middle line:90% Slightest morsel. 00:07:23.690 --> 00:07:26.390 align:middle line:84% Now, blue jay, loud in the garden. 00:07:26.390 --> 00:07:29.870 align:middle line:84% Where we've not yet thought beyond our elders, 00:07:29.870 --> 00:07:32.060 align:middle line:90% but to extract the implicit. 00:07:32.060 --> 00:07:35.810 align:middle line:84% Soar out over Dungeness river seeking what? 00:07:35.810 --> 00:07:38.510 align:middle line:84% My brother's silent amid hardscrabble. 00:07:38.510 --> 00:07:43.160 align:middle line:84% Boyd's circus rambling, shadowy, house atop dry soil. 00:07:43.160 --> 00:07:47.570 align:middle line:84% Rain shadow versus forest's constant precipitation. 00:07:47.570 --> 00:07:51.650 align:middle line:84% Atop Olympus 180 inches per year. 00:07:51.650 --> 00:07:55.070 align:middle line:84% Oatmeal too thick, squirrels smaller. 00:07:55.070 --> 00:07:58.520 align:middle line:84% Haul of moss, coniferous trunk root nurse 00:07:58.520 --> 00:08:03.650 align:middle line:84% new, volunteers merge, clinging, seek light, get lightning. 00:08:03.650 --> 00:08:05.330 align:middle line:90% River grasses ripple. 00:08:05.330 --> 00:08:07.310 align:middle line:90% Apple pecked at by crow. 00:08:07.310 --> 00:08:10.910 align:middle line:84% Store clerk says, I had a schizophrenic roommate 00:08:10.910 --> 00:08:13.100 align:middle line:90% with a pet rat named Crumpet. 00:08:13.100 --> 00:08:15.950 align:middle line:84% Crescent Lake shore so much longer. 00:08:15.950 --> 00:08:17.690 align:middle line:90% Snow melt then midsummer. 00:08:17.690 --> 00:08:19.940 align:middle line:90% Rock face draped with nets. 00:08:19.940 --> 00:08:23.810 align:middle line:84% Children scrambling to ride atop floating log. 00:08:23.810 --> 00:08:26.810 align:middle line:90% Buys a canvas hat, wide-brimmed. 00:08:26.810 --> 00:08:28.790 align:middle line:90% Tip of the hemlock droops. 00:08:28.790 --> 00:08:30.800 align:middle line:90% Not grown for Christmas. 00:08:30.800 --> 00:08:33.799 align:middle line:90% Mute talk of politics, religion. 00:08:33.799 --> 00:08:38.179 align:middle line:84% What's thought, what dream, what half-remembered glimpses 00:08:38.179 --> 00:08:42.600 align:middle line:84% from old afternoon tryst years after more clear, 00:08:42.600 --> 00:08:45.830 align:middle line:84% more intent, if that's possible, absorbed 00:08:45.830 --> 00:08:47.540 align:middle line:90% into the weft of feeling. 00:08:47.540 --> 00:08:50.840 align:middle line:84% The dance unveils the text hidden in space, 00:08:50.840 --> 00:08:55.280 align:middle line:84% whereas architecture, for the most part, blocks it off. 00:08:55.280 --> 00:08:59.090 align:middle line:84% Sea planes rise up off Freshwater lake. 00:08:59.090 --> 00:09:02.570 align:middle line:84% Later river walk encased by mall. 00:09:02.570 --> 00:09:05.450 align:middle line:90% Nearby, the Alamo mute hotels. 00:09:05.450 --> 00:09:07.580 align:middle line:90% Vacant lobbies tell all. 00:09:07.580 --> 00:09:11.960 align:middle line:84% Coke machines, inner light flicker constantly. 00:09:11.960 --> 00:09:15.080 align:middle line:84% The air thick and heavy, cloud scraped, 00:09:15.080 --> 00:09:16.790 align:middle line:90% or flattened landscape. 00:09:16.790 --> 00:09:18.890 align:middle line:90% Who here speaks English? 00:09:18.890 --> 00:09:23.660 align:middle line:84% Who here will hark loud as grackles incessant laugh. 00:09:23.660 --> 00:09:26.940 align:middle line:90% Battle after math's ironic sum. 00:09:26.940 --> 00:09:29.240 align:middle line:90% Economy trumps all. 00:09:29.240 --> 00:09:34.370 align:middle line:84% History, where now teens cluster to mock tourism's earnest gape. 00:09:34.370 --> 00:09:38.690 align:middle line:84% It looks so small, because it is. 00:09:38.690 --> 00:09:42.500 align:middle line:84% Trucks evacuating quarry beep in reverse. 00:09:42.500 --> 00:09:47.210 align:middle line:84% Diner's posture, alert, awaiting omelet, sausages, toast. 00:09:47.210 --> 00:09:49.700 align:middle line:90% Behind whom the sun arises. 00:09:49.700 --> 00:09:52.280 align:middle line:84% White light or Morningside Heights. 00:09:52.280 --> 00:09:57.350 align:middle line:84% Cook hollering to the cashier in Spanish, then English, then 00:09:57.350 --> 00:09:59.990 align:middle line:84% a third language I don't understand. 00:09:59.990 --> 00:10:01.910 align:middle line:90% Cringe before that glare. 00:10:01.910 --> 00:10:05.600 align:middle line:84% Until muted by clouds wisps, monastic New York 00:10:05.600 --> 00:10:08.360 align:middle line:90% hotel room deep within shadows. 00:10:08.360 --> 00:10:10.880 align:middle line:90% What music mocks its maker? 00:10:10.880 --> 00:10:14.240 align:middle line:84% The ropes tug as dad shakes his beard. 00:10:14.240 --> 00:10:18.110 align:middle line:84% Lost daughter found then sold into marriage. 00:10:18.110 --> 00:10:21.740 align:middle line:84% In walks Burt again, crossing into language. 00:10:21.740 --> 00:10:25.160 align:middle line:84% Subway stairs become waterfalls under Ivan, 00:10:25.160 --> 00:10:27.350 align:middle line:90% until flooding halts commute. 00:10:27.350 --> 00:10:31.250 align:middle line:84% What Milton sees the deaf here or knot. 00:10:31.250 --> 00:10:34.220 align:middle line:84% Cashews, pretzels, honey roasted sesame 00:10:34.220 --> 00:10:38.210 align:middle line:84% sticks, the Earth below flat, checkered, not yet 00:10:38.210 --> 00:10:40.490 align:middle line:90% autumn, dry desert heat. 00:10:40.490 --> 00:10:44.600 align:middle line:84% Heart races, arts phases, hard faces. 00:10:44.600 --> 00:10:47.660 align:middle line:84% Heard in place in pink marble plaza, 00:10:47.660 --> 00:10:53.020 align:middle line:84% beyond which red dirt surface of Mars is not more barren. 00:10:53.020 --> 00:10:57.400 align:middle line:90% What on, or in, or about blazes. 00:10:57.400 --> 00:11:00.460 align:middle line:90% Molten edge of the sun spurts. 00:11:00.460 --> 00:11:02.440 align:middle line:90% The plane banks left. 00:11:02.440 --> 00:11:05.500 align:middle line:84% Below Lake Michigan's blue-green sailboat, 00:11:05.500 --> 00:11:07.120 align:middle line:90% speckled in the glare. 00:11:07.120 --> 00:11:10.720 align:middle line:84% Architecture matters when nature lacks features. 00:11:10.720 --> 00:11:14.440 align:middle line:84% Hermes, is it, atop old monkey ward HQ. 00:11:14.440 --> 00:11:16.540 align:middle line:90% Not some other Adonis. 00:11:16.540 --> 00:11:21.220 align:middle line:84% Great breaks of the wings flap rise, indoor heat door frames 00:11:21.220 --> 00:11:21.760 align:middle line:90% height. 00:11:21.760 --> 00:11:26.770 align:middle line:84% Swap, swamp, swells, sells all, tells less. 00:11:26.770 --> 00:11:29.170 align:middle line:84% Nightmare with flashbacks, figures 00:11:29.170 --> 00:11:32.950 align:middle line:84% precognition, people dropping naked from rooftops. 00:11:32.950 --> 00:11:37.960 align:middle line:84% When I saw water pouring in, I knew we were under attack. 00:11:37.960 --> 00:11:40.660 align:middle line:84% Attempt to reconstruct the sequence, 00:11:40.660 --> 00:11:42.550 align:middle line:90% build narrative, bridge. 00:11:42.550 --> 00:11:45.910 align:middle line:90% Classic Bob, air, syntax out. 00:11:45.910 --> 00:11:48.820 align:middle line:90% Neighbor waddles to fetch paper. 00:11:48.820 --> 00:11:51.460 align:middle line:90% Hard copy is old copy. 00:11:51.460 --> 00:11:55.330 align:middle line:84% Cold stone atop which to scoop even colder 00:11:55.330 --> 00:11:58.870 align:middle line:84% cream, white chocolate kisses battered in. 00:11:58.870 --> 00:12:01.840 align:middle line:84% The maple reddens while the oak goes yellow. 00:12:01.840 --> 00:12:05.740 align:middle line:84% All the others already leafless, lifeless on the street, 00:12:05.740 --> 00:12:08.230 align:middle line:90% yellow tarp atop the torso. 00:12:08.230 --> 00:12:11.590 align:middle line:84% Hollow lungs hollers for help and vision, 00:12:11.590 --> 00:12:15.430 align:middle line:84% this all without sound, some deep and glade, 00:12:15.430 --> 00:12:19.270 align:middle line:84% inaudible oriole area as an arch aches, 00:12:19.270 --> 00:12:21.340 align:middle line:90% stretching across its trestle. 00:12:21.340 --> 00:12:26.500 align:middle line:84% Test the trees stand strength before adding tinsel, glass 00:12:26.500 --> 00:12:28.690 align:middle line:90% balls, small ornamentation. 00:12:28.690 --> 00:12:33.490 align:middle line:84% Avoid clusters, clutter, dis in distribute, understood? 00:12:33.490 --> 00:12:36.130 align:middle line:90% But tribute, that is harder. 00:12:36.130 --> 00:12:40.180 align:middle line:84% I hear wheels across the gravel, wet with the dense fog, 00:12:40.180 --> 00:12:44.170 align:middle line:84% hushed, then digging in to turn, then softer. 00:12:44.170 --> 00:12:49.090 align:middle line:84% The newly-paved Goathill Road river makes a natural border. 00:12:49.090 --> 00:12:51.520 align:middle line:84% Already icicles hang in the woods. 00:12:51.520 --> 00:12:56.530 align:middle line:84% Gray is the late autumn forest, reduced to branch and trunk. 00:12:56.530 --> 00:12:59.920 align:middle line:84% I stuck by the plan, as it by me. 00:12:59.920 --> 00:13:04.600 align:middle line:84% Hark as syllables harden to shape-shifters shaken shine. 00:13:04.600 --> 00:13:07.600 align:middle line:84% Consonants lock into crystalline scene. 00:13:07.600 --> 00:13:12.160 align:middle line:84% Saw inch from the trunks base before setting into water. 00:13:12.160 --> 00:13:17.770 align:middle line:84% Upright, encircled with light, you stir much mice in my mouth. 00:13:17.770 --> 00:13:22.420 align:middle line:84% The bed too firm, impossible, and I too tired drift, 00:13:22.420 --> 00:13:26.080 align:middle line:84% books still in my hand, sleep at first sitting. 00:13:26.080 --> 00:13:28.870 align:middle line:84% Green, encased light over the wash 00:13:28.870 --> 00:13:33.820 align:middle line:84% stand, behind which thin pipes tangle into the walls. 00:13:33.820 --> 00:13:36.670 align:middle line:90% Fogs light shadowless, soft. 00:13:36.670 --> 00:13:37.840 align:middle line:90% The day muted. 00:13:37.840 --> 00:13:41.530 align:middle line:84% Llamas in the next field beside the alpaca. 00:13:41.530 --> 00:13:45.790 align:middle line:84% The sound of water and pipes rushing as others waken. 00:13:45.790 --> 00:13:50.920 align:middle line:84% Our bidding, or theirs, again to disturb, invokes the lost root. 00:13:50.920 --> 00:13:55.360 align:middle line:84% I sigh, superfluous lamp, light enlarges 00:13:55.360 --> 00:13:57.070 align:middle line:90% and otherwise dark room. 00:13:57.070 --> 00:13:59.590 align:middle line:90% Winter sun smeared, muted. 00:13:59.590 --> 00:14:01.300 align:middle line:90% Infinite gray scale. 00:14:01.300 --> 00:14:03.940 align:middle line:84% The night before last's luminarias. 00:14:03.940 --> 00:14:05.620 align:middle line:90% Louis, am I weeping? 00:14:05.620 --> 00:14:07.990 align:middle line:90% Lit, now only in the mind. 00:14:07.990 --> 00:14:13.270 align:middle line:84% Deep-set rocker, heavy furnace hum behind the next wall. 00:14:13.270 --> 00:14:17.410 align:middle line:84% Camelot in the pasture turn staring at the man 00:14:17.410 --> 00:14:20.530 align:middle line:84% down hill, gathering patio furniture up 00:14:20.530 --> 00:14:23.320 align:middle line:84% in advance of the forewarned storm. 00:14:23.320 --> 00:14:27.280 align:middle line:84% Or you are being driven along an unfamiliar route 00:14:27.280 --> 00:14:30.490 align:middle line:84% through streets of your own former home. 00:14:30.490 --> 00:14:33.250 align:middle line:84% Whole neighborhoods tinged with emotion. 00:14:33.250 --> 00:14:37.450 align:middle line:84% One still dreams of jets, sliding into houses, 00:14:37.450 --> 00:14:40.210 align:middle line:90% apartment complexes, gone. 00:14:40.210 --> 00:14:44.320 align:middle line:84% One millisecond of stillness and then the heat and burst 00:14:44.320 --> 00:14:48.400 align:middle line:84% and orange ball of flame explodes in the mind's eye, 00:14:48.400 --> 00:14:52.420 align:middle line:84% anxious in your hotel room's great raft of a bed. 00:14:52.420 --> 00:14:56.350 align:middle line:84% For days the networks discover new amateur videos, 00:14:56.350 --> 00:15:00.130 align:middle line:84% waves far greater than one can imagine on the beach. 00:15:00.130 --> 00:15:02.770 align:middle line:84% Bathers not even thinking to run. 00:15:02.770 --> 00:15:06.130 align:middle line:84% Buses floating through the streets of debris. 00:15:06.130 --> 00:15:09.220 align:middle line:84% Banda Aceh, this week's geography 00:15:09.220 --> 00:15:11.200 align:middle line:90% of the public imagination. 00:15:11.200 --> 00:15:14.560 align:middle line:84% Phuket's stream of tourists washed away. 00:15:14.560 --> 00:15:16.720 align:middle line:90% Bulldozers scooping corpses. 00:15:16.720 --> 00:15:19.720 align:middle line:84% Our newscaster, alone in an empty village, 00:15:19.720 --> 00:15:22.060 align:middle line:84% only the battered mosque remains. 00:15:22.060 --> 00:15:23.590 align:middle line:90% Where are the people? 00:15:23.590 --> 00:15:27.370 align:middle line:84% How does this outer-like apocalypse reported 00:15:27.370 --> 00:15:29.350 align:middle line:90% penetrate my dreams? 00:15:29.350 --> 00:15:34.030 align:middle line:84% Three men on the street walking, discussing who will reach 60. 00:15:34.030 --> 00:15:37.870 align:middle line:84% When the way as teens, we spoke of 20. 00:15:37.870 --> 00:15:40.630 align:middle line:84% Not even seeing the homeless woman, 00:15:40.630 --> 00:15:44.830 align:middle line:84% asleep beneath the newspaper racks at Mission and Fourth, 00:15:44.830 --> 00:15:47.770 align:middle line:90% fifth of bourbon warms, warns. 00:15:47.770 --> 00:15:52.730 align:middle line:84% Passed between three beneath the bridge, day is done, 00:15:52.730 --> 00:15:55.430 align:middle line:84% day is the ever-present challenge. 00:15:55.430 --> 00:15:56.870 align:middle line:90% Wake or not. 00:15:56.870 --> 00:16:00.020 align:middle line:84% The painter Jess simply stays asleep. 00:16:00.020 --> 00:16:03.650 align:middle line:84% Paint hardens, even cracks or decades. 00:16:03.650 --> 00:16:06.440 align:middle line:84% Browns grow muddy, greens mute, sky 00:16:06.440 --> 00:16:10.490 align:middle line:84% goes pale in the midst of an abstract field of blue. 00:16:10.490 --> 00:16:14.540 align:middle line:84% Deep blue squiggles, Don Quixote approaches. 00:16:14.540 --> 00:16:15.920 align:middle line:90% What is possible? 00:16:15.920 --> 00:16:21.410 align:middle line:84% Seeing her emotive prosody heart, because it impacts one's 00:16:21.410 --> 00:16:22.250 align:middle line:90% breathing. 00:16:22.250 --> 00:16:26.120 align:middle line:84% Gasp to grasp the truth of what is not even visible, 00:16:26.120 --> 00:16:29.850 align:middle line:84% cannot be heard, red haired setter, deaf to the world, 00:16:29.850 --> 00:16:33.620 align:middle line:84% looks slowly, copes by smell, residual sight. 00:16:33.620 --> 00:16:35.030 align:middle line:90% My eyes shut. 00:16:35.030 --> 00:16:39.530 align:middle line:84% I can taste that I grew up near that train's whistle 00:16:39.530 --> 00:16:41.600 align:middle line:90% in the distance, unmistakable. 00:16:41.600 --> 00:16:44.780 align:middle line:84% In the fireplace, a basket of dried flowers, 00:16:44.780 --> 00:16:47.780 align:middle line:84% green rug echoes couch and chair. 00:16:47.780 --> 00:16:49.910 align:middle line:90% Remotes scattered about. 00:16:49.910 --> 00:16:54.560 align:middle line:84% Even my eyes adjust gradually to the light, well before dawn. 00:16:54.560 --> 00:16:58.610 align:middle line:84% My lens, instead of an onion, unions dwindled now 00:16:58.610 --> 00:17:01.190 align:middle line:90% to 8% in the commercial sector. 00:17:01.190 --> 00:17:04.880 align:middle line:84% Stairs, doors groan, the slightest touch. 00:17:04.880 --> 00:17:07.490 align:middle line:84% If at night I wake by eastern time, 00:17:07.490 --> 00:17:11.300 align:middle line:84% street lamp just visible through the web of the plum trees 00:17:11.300 --> 00:17:14.300 align:middle line:84% branches, casting shadow, more than light. 00:17:14.300 --> 00:17:16.250 align:middle line:90% OK, what's next? 00:17:16.250 --> 00:17:19.160 align:middle line:84% Small plane audible in the night sky, 00:17:19.160 --> 00:17:22.130 align:middle line:84% even before first trucks, first train. 00:17:22.130 --> 00:17:26.240 align:middle line:84% But if you listen, here now is a second ceramic frog 00:17:26.240 --> 00:17:28.130 align:middle line:90% atop silent piano. 00:17:28.130 --> 00:17:30.290 align:middle line:90% Not frog, but a turtle. 00:17:30.290 --> 00:17:33.200 align:middle line:84% Describe how shoes scatter pattern 00:17:33.200 --> 00:17:37.370 align:middle line:84% from happenstance, the way books stacked towards the pyramid 00:17:37.370 --> 00:17:39.620 align:middle line:90% always or else topple. 00:17:39.620 --> 00:17:41.330 align:middle line:90% Game, Jenga. 00:17:41.330 --> 00:17:44.990 align:middle line:84% Crickets for the gecko, biscuits for the dog. 00:17:44.990 --> 00:17:48.200 align:middle line:84% Page skipped is discovered blank then filled. 00:17:48.200 --> 00:17:51.590 align:middle line:84% Each word after the other asserts connection. 00:17:51.590 --> 00:17:56.240 align:middle line:84% Conniption, my grandma loved to say, was something one has, 00:17:56.240 --> 00:17:57.290 align:middle line:90% not does. 00:17:57.290 --> 00:18:00.800 align:middle line:84% Already the fourth train shushes past. 00:18:00.800 --> 00:18:03.620 align:middle line:90% Dear Krishna, it's 6:11 AM. 00:18:03.620 --> 00:18:07.670 align:middle line:84% Upstairs a faucet turns briefly, Lily is grown now, 00:18:07.670 --> 00:18:12.260 align:middle line:84% Allen's hair thinned at last, Melissa's perfect smile 00:18:12.260 --> 00:18:15.530 align:middle line:84% still shines, but no sign of Lulu. 00:18:15.530 --> 00:18:18.800 align:middle line:84% Time erodes what dear, what's near. 00:18:18.800 --> 00:18:22.910 align:middle line:84% Is past too soon to grasp fully the consequence? 00:18:22.910 --> 00:18:25.850 align:middle line:84% Dawn threatens a new day constantly. 00:18:25.850 --> 00:18:30.410 align:middle line:84% Sun as vicious as dusk, or rather, simply uncaring. 00:18:30.410 --> 00:18:33.500 align:middle line:84% Birds disinterested in the infant's corpse. 00:18:33.500 --> 00:18:37.490 align:middle line:84% It's language that introduces emotion, or the other way 00:18:37.490 --> 00:18:38.360 align:middle line:90% around. 00:18:38.360 --> 00:18:42.500 align:middle line:84% My old street, so narrow to boys throwing a football, 00:18:42.500 --> 00:18:45.080 align:middle line:84% would find my world unimaginable. 00:18:45.080 --> 00:18:48.860 align:middle line:84% And I'm sure theirs likewise will amaze them, how quaint 00:18:48.860 --> 00:18:52.100 align:middle line:84% that first home network seems already. 00:18:52.100 --> 00:18:55.790 align:middle line:84% Norma says of Barbara, she's there and then not. 00:18:55.790 --> 00:18:58.730 align:middle line:84% Mimicking consciousness more slowly now. 00:18:58.730 --> 00:19:02.330 align:middle line:84% So that others can see you feel the heat's lack, 00:19:02.330 --> 00:19:03.680 align:middle line:90% but not the wind. 00:19:03.680 --> 00:19:05.690 align:middle line:90% Wind up an old clock. 00:19:05.690 --> 00:19:08.930 align:middle line:84% Airplane, I realize, is now tracking 00:19:08.930 --> 00:19:12.950 align:middle line:90% the traffic, the early commute. 00:19:12.950 --> 00:19:15.140 align:middle line:90% First train, best train. 00:19:15.140 --> 00:19:19.160 align:middle line:84% Still no hint of sun, but now all the trees, 00:19:19.160 --> 00:19:21.080 align:middle line:90% houses visible in silhouette. 00:19:21.080 --> 00:19:24.740 align:middle line:84% The dog audible by its collar, paws over hardwood. 00:19:24.740 --> 00:19:29.030 align:middle line:84% Then a sigh, over the street windows emerge porches, 00:19:29.030 --> 00:19:31.010 align:middle line:90% no longer just outlines. 00:19:31.010 --> 00:19:35.000 align:middle line:84% Details, a larger jet now, a few cars, than many. 00:19:35.000 --> 00:19:37.550 align:middle line:90% My penmanship more ornate today. 00:19:37.550 --> 00:19:39.410 align:middle line:90% No sign of the trembles. 00:19:39.410 --> 00:19:42.350 align:middle line:84% An instant ago, I sat in Elliott's kitchen, 00:19:42.350 --> 00:19:45.560 align:middle line:84% then taped words cut from the paper above the dog's 00:19:45.560 --> 00:19:46.580 align:middle line:90% white bowl. 00:19:46.580 --> 00:19:47.870 align:middle line:90% Good dog. 00:19:47.870 --> 00:19:51.990 align:middle line:84% The last I'd ever live with, I didn't know then. 00:19:51.990 --> 00:19:55.880 align:middle line:84% I dream you, floating, not plummeting, from high 00:19:55.880 --> 00:19:57.260 align:middle line:90% off that bridge. 00:19:57.260 --> 00:19:59.540 align:middle line:90% Birds finally begin to twitter. 00:19:59.540 --> 00:20:01.520 align:middle line:90% Color floods, merging day. 00:20:01.520 --> 00:20:04.970 align:middle line:84% The sun still behind the hills, face west 00:20:04.970 --> 00:20:07.250 align:middle line:90% toward whichever future comes. 00:20:07.250 --> 00:20:10.040 align:middle line:90% Mockingbird mimics dog caller. 00:20:10.040 --> 00:20:12.620 align:middle line:90% Another bird's three note peep. 00:20:12.620 --> 00:20:15.260 align:middle line:90% Discern now, which jet is which. 00:20:15.260 --> 00:20:17.570 align:middle line:90% Pinks streak the high sky. 00:20:17.570 --> 00:20:21.860 align:middle line:84% I rise, eyes blink, shaking sleep away. 00:20:21.860 --> 00:20:26.750 align:middle line:84% 757 angles in fog, bay at the runway's rim. 00:20:26.750 --> 00:20:31.160 align:middle line:84% Engines raring, waiting, ready, poised, and flaring to race 00:20:31.160 --> 00:20:35.270 align:middle line:84% forward up over the salt ponds, half hidden in the mist. 00:20:35.270 --> 00:20:38.210 align:middle line:84% Silhouette of the city piercing cloud, 00:20:38.210 --> 00:20:40.040 align:middle line:90% but the bridges are hidden. 00:20:40.040 --> 00:20:44.120 align:middle line:84% Inner ear, particularly trumpet, displays pressure, 00:20:44.120 --> 00:20:46.400 align:middle line:90% cottony wisps soon scatter. 00:20:46.400 --> 00:20:48.730 align:middle line:90% Valleys revealed green and gold. 00:20:48.730 --> 00:20:50.540 align:middle line:90% I hold the fluted glass. 00:20:50.540 --> 00:20:53.010 align:middle line:84% To cleanse the palette, mango ice 00:20:53.010 --> 00:20:58.020 align:middle line:84% cream, or the sauce hot and sweet, spicy, smoked, eggplant, 00:20:58.020 --> 00:20:59.850 align:middle line:90% rice absorbs the broth. 00:20:59.850 --> 00:21:03.570 align:middle line:84% Breath, breadth, bread, a head too big for hats. 00:21:03.570 --> 00:21:07.470 align:middle line:84% Hands, likewise large, grasped the ball with ease. 00:21:07.470 --> 00:21:10.500 align:middle line:84% To please herself she walks on her palms 00:21:10.500 --> 00:21:14.370 align:middle line:84% then flips upright, smiling, sees more than we know. 00:21:14.370 --> 00:21:18.360 align:middle line:84% Teases younger brother, mother, dad, bad dogs? 00:21:18.360 --> 00:21:19.290 align:middle line:90% Never. 00:21:19.290 --> 00:21:21.480 align:middle line:90% Invariably doses, wags. 00:21:21.480 --> 00:21:24.180 align:middle line:84% What tale undisclosed in aggregate, 00:21:24.180 --> 00:21:28.140 align:middle line:84% fatal to those who unsuspecting choose service. 00:21:28.140 --> 00:21:31.830 align:middle line:84% Falls in Fallujah, winter in Chester County. 00:21:31.830 --> 00:21:34.440 align:middle line:84% Ice will do it, branches and jammed. 00:21:34.440 --> 00:21:37.380 align:middle line:84% Snap lights connection, cloud woosh. 00:21:37.380 --> 00:21:39.090 align:middle line:90% Gives wind voice. 00:21:39.090 --> 00:21:41.850 align:middle line:84% Chip film, like glass from the walk. 00:21:41.850 --> 00:21:44.100 align:middle line:90% Watch the car struggle uphill. 00:21:44.100 --> 00:21:48.030 align:middle line:84% My hands shaking the line, shaking airplane audible, 00:21:48.030 --> 00:21:51.930 align:middle line:84% but out of sight, dusk's light alone, by which to write, 00:21:51.930 --> 00:21:52.650 align:middle line:90% weight. 00:21:52.650 --> 00:21:54.570 align:middle line:90% Weight will snap the limb. 00:21:54.570 --> 00:21:58.350 align:middle line:84% The line gone limp now, hang waist-high, wood raw 00:21:58.350 --> 00:22:02.040 align:middle line:84% at the wound, sun but streaks reflected to the west. 00:22:02.040 --> 00:22:06.630 align:middle line:84% Pink-orange fading, blue light behind snow's 00:22:06.630 --> 00:22:09.870 align:middle line:84% powder blows harsh right in the eyes. 00:22:09.870 --> 00:22:12.750 align:middle line:90% Sinuses season soon follows. 00:22:12.750 --> 00:22:15.720 align:middle line:84% Nest high atop power grid's tower 00:22:15.720 --> 00:22:20.430 align:middle line:84% reveals streaked eye, white head, beak built for killing. 00:22:20.430 --> 00:22:23.640 align:middle line:84% Osprey stretches to observe her world. 00:22:23.640 --> 00:22:28.980 align:middle line:84% Water, low below great Conowingo dam, the far sides of lake. 00:22:28.980 --> 00:22:33.390 align:middle line:84% But here, what swims beneath water surfaces easily caught. 00:22:33.390 --> 00:22:38.100 align:middle line:84% No boating beyond this point sign in the water, post 9/11. 00:22:38.100 --> 00:22:42.510 align:middle line:84% But we drove right over Highway One, south toward Darlington. 00:22:42.510 --> 00:22:46.680 align:middle line:84% County store, a few churches, the firehouse, brand new, 00:22:46.680 --> 00:22:48.030 align:middle line:90% but all volunteer. 00:22:48.030 --> 00:22:50.550 align:middle line:90% What else, but sell antiques. 00:22:50.550 --> 00:22:55.080 align:middle line:84% Old world's evaporating, not yet new commuters and a Walmart 00:22:55.080 --> 00:22:58.470 align:middle line:84% to transform these farms into subdivisions, 00:22:58.470 --> 00:23:02.520 align:middle line:84% demanding better schools, a non-laughable cop 00:23:02.520 --> 00:23:04.530 align:middle line:90% to stop emergent crime. 00:23:04.530 --> 00:23:08.970 align:middle line:84% Stone said to contain its own sculpture thwarts choice. 00:23:08.970 --> 00:23:14.010 align:middle line:84% To voice vowels languidly moist lips purse their part. 00:23:14.010 --> 00:23:17.400 align:middle line:84% There's an art to it, intuitive aforethought. 00:23:17.400 --> 00:23:21.660 align:middle line:84% Thinks drone to the fan in the bathroom, refrigerators rumble, 00:23:21.660 --> 00:23:22.830 align:middle line:90% casting ice. 00:23:22.830 --> 00:23:26.820 align:middle line:84% Fluorescent bulb whines and the lamp, damp, day, fox , 00:23:26.820 --> 00:23:30.120 align:middle line:84% the glass, razor wire rings, the rooftop. 00:23:30.120 --> 00:23:32.910 align:middle line:84% The young woman rises to shake my hand. 00:23:32.910 --> 00:23:36.000 align:middle line:84% The helicopter, green, just hangs 00:23:36.000 --> 00:23:38.280 align:middle line:90% high over the gallery floor. 00:23:38.280 --> 00:23:41.580 align:middle line:84% The persistence of memory, smaller than I'd imagined. 00:23:41.580 --> 00:23:45.070 align:middle line:84% The pinks of the women of Avignon, too bright. 00:23:45.070 --> 00:23:47.370 align:middle line:84% I hear morning as the first siren. 00:23:47.370 --> 00:23:50.110 align:middle line:84% Trucks cough, paused at an intersection, 00:23:50.110 --> 00:23:51.750 align:middle line:90% not visible from here. 00:23:51.750 --> 00:23:53.940 align:middle line:84% The blue of a perfect spring morning, 00:23:53.940 --> 00:23:56.340 align:middle line:90% unimaginable above this high. 00:23:56.340 --> 00:23:59.010 align:middle line:84% Above this great crush of apartments. 00:23:59.010 --> 00:24:01.650 align:middle line:84% Who here owns the slightest yard. 00:24:01.650 --> 00:24:05.100 align:middle line:84% Young man alone in Chipotle, chewing thoughtfully 00:24:05.100 --> 00:24:08.820 align:middle line:84% his large burrito, not talking, taking it all in, 00:24:08.820 --> 00:24:10.380 align:middle line:90% eyes absorbing all. 00:24:10.380 --> 00:24:13.260 align:middle line:84% Could have been, had this taqueria been there 00:24:13.260 --> 00:24:15.960 align:middle line:90% then, myself in 1964. 00:24:15.960 --> 00:24:19.770 align:middle line:84% What little I knew then, but could learn by doing, 00:24:19.770 --> 00:24:21.870 align:middle line:90% earn just enough to eke by. 00:24:21.870 --> 00:24:23.850 align:middle line:90% Barking for the Cafe Wha? 00:24:23.850 --> 00:24:25.710 align:middle line:90% Dime for each new customer. 00:24:25.710 --> 00:24:31.740 align:middle line:84% I lack the huckster's flair, lone feather by a gravel road. 00:24:31.740 --> 00:24:35.340 align:middle line:84% All one needs by which to fabricate the tale. 00:24:35.340 --> 00:24:39.720 align:middle line:84% Each to each, not beach exactly, but stones against the water 00:24:39.720 --> 00:24:45.030 align:middle line:84% piled up to the dock beyond which or whc mockingbird hops 00:24:45.030 --> 00:24:47.820 align:middle line:84% to the front confront a robin, squirrel 00:24:47.820 --> 00:24:51.270 align:middle line:84% rears up to eat some morsel in the clover. 00:24:51.270 --> 00:24:55.260 align:middle line:84% Each page would blow wild, but for the binding stitch 00:24:55.260 --> 00:24:59.340 align:middle line:90% deep into the notebook spine. 00:24:59.340 --> 00:25:02.760 align:middle line:84% Dog barking emerges from barn, but won't approach. 00:25:02.760 --> 00:25:08.550 align:middle line:84% Such boundaries, visible to the mind, but not physical at all. 00:25:08.550 --> 00:25:11.070 align:middle line:84% Swam with the broken wing, adopts 00:25:11.070 --> 00:25:17.520 align:middle line:84% a small town pond, adapts, adept at avoiding all unleashed dogs 00:25:17.520 --> 00:25:18.360 align:middle line:90% as they pass. 00:25:18.360 --> 00:25:22.080 align:middle line:84% As [INAUDIBLE] less, far less permanent than this giant oak, 00:25:22.080 --> 00:25:26.310 align:middle line:84% not topple the top, which lone raven stalks wind. 00:25:26.310 --> 00:25:29.280 align:middle line:84% Rendered visible by the trees, two cardinals 00:25:29.280 --> 00:25:30.720 align:middle line:90% buffeted in flight. 00:25:30.720 --> 00:25:32.610 align:middle line:84% Red messengers, they're floating, 00:25:32.610 --> 00:25:37.200 align:middle line:90% text peeps by, I spy, eyes, pie. 00:25:37.200 --> 00:25:41.370 align:middle line:84% Turns skim over water, pre-dusk glare over the Chesapeake, 00:25:41.370 --> 00:25:45.120 align:middle line:84% blue heron, solitary, standing still. 00:25:45.120 --> 00:25:47.310 align:middle line:90% Ospreys nest looks huge. 00:25:47.310 --> 00:25:50.160 align:middle line:90% Hum means mosquito right at ear. 00:25:50.160 --> 00:25:54.700 align:middle line:84% Rubber soles atop hardwood, screech, scratch, itch, each 00:25:54.700 --> 00:25:58.840 align:middle line:84% to, common turns atop a post, implies a pairing. 00:25:58.840 --> 00:26:02.350 align:middle line:84% Jack Russell terriers underfoot, but Jasmine, 00:26:02.350 --> 00:26:05.050 align:middle line:84% sad-eyed black poodle, plays fetch. 00:26:05.050 --> 00:26:08.620 align:middle line:84% Hard rubber chew toy wet with success. 00:26:08.620 --> 00:26:11.080 align:middle line:90% Ice tea season is upon us. 00:26:11.080 --> 00:26:13.270 align:middle line:84% Tall, slender glass, but the waiter 00:26:13.270 --> 00:26:18.130 align:middle line:84% wears his baseball cap to accent eastern shores, southern drawl. 00:26:18.130 --> 00:26:20.650 align:middle line:84% He recommends black-eyed pea cakes. 00:26:20.650 --> 00:26:24.040 align:middle line:84% I think the chutney-spiced marmalade, weight 00:26:24.040 --> 00:26:26.440 align:middle line:90% to range drainpipe syncopation. 00:26:26.440 --> 00:26:30.400 align:middle line:84% To make love at dawn then drift back to sleep. 00:26:30.400 --> 00:26:33.580 align:middle line:84% To rise again still early enough for breakfast, 00:26:33.580 --> 00:26:35.440 align:middle line:90% push window up for air. 00:26:35.440 --> 00:26:39.640 align:middle line:84% Deep throats and elderly embittered bureaucratic hack 00:26:39.640 --> 00:26:41.710 align:middle line:90% is this week's top story. 00:26:41.710 --> 00:26:45.310 align:middle line:84% To do right for wrong reasons complicates the tale. 00:26:45.310 --> 00:26:48.370 align:middle line:84% Today Fox News wouldn't even notice. 00:26:48.370 --> 00:26:50.770 align:middle line:90% Language, language, Allen said. 00:26:50.770 --> 00:26:55.000 align:middle line:84% Wichita tape recorder rolling where Pound decries, 00:26:55.000 --> 00:26:59.890 align:middle line:84% you sewer of white lies, lethal, but legal, perhaps add up. 00:26:59.890 --> 00:27:03.370 align:middle line:84% A long road to Baghdad airport from the green zone's 00:27:03.370 --> 00:27:08.020 align:middle line:84% barricades, improvised explosive device, homemade, goes up 00:27:08.020 --> 00:27:11.560 align:middle line:84% rendering hillbilly armor, just so much shrapnel, 00:27:11.560 --> 00:27:16.120 align:middle line:84% splayed organs reduced to meat, flowering as consciousness 00:27:16.120 --> 00:27:17.710 align:middle line:90% ebbs slow motion. 00:27:17.710 --> 00:27:22.660 align:middle line:84% Vices become distance, instantly echoing unimaginable in head. 00:27:22.660 --> 00:27:27.250 align:middle line:84% Language, language, all the unknown knowables known. 00:27:27.250 --> 00:27:30.055 align:middle line:84% Not to spark action, but the barn 00:27:30.055 --> 00:27:34.510 align:middle line:84% at Wades Point in watercolor, behind white rocker, mocks 00:27:34.510 --> 00:27:35.830 align:middle line:90% times friction. 00:27:35.830 --> 00:27:40.660 align:middle line:84% Mrs. Kemp, buried somewhere by the barn, but with no stone 00:27:40.660 --> 00:27:42.910 align:middle line:84% marker visible through the reeds. 00:27:42.910 --> 00:27:45.250 align:middle line:90% Dog from the red barn barks. 00:27:45.250 --> 00:27:48.850 align:middle line:84% Empty warning, not even rising onto all fours. 00:27:48.850 --> 00:27:52.060 align:middle line:84% For force, fill in all fields completely. 00:27:52.060 --> 00:27:57.160 align:middle line:84% Fasting, blood fills vial, deep, dark, rich, red, almost black. 00:27:57.160 --> 00:27:59.440 align:middle line:84% Blank stares, clinic waiting room. 00:27:59.440 --> 00:28:02.350 align:middle line:84% Time as emulsion, withhold motion. 00:28:02.350 --> 00:28:05.140 align:middle line:84% The nurse has her script before dawn 00:28:05.140 --> 00:28:09.250 align:middle line:84% in the night woods, one imagines, Ponge one imagines, 00:28:09.250 --> 00:28:09.910 align:middle line:90% anything. 00:28:09.910 --> 00:28:12.640 align:middle line:84% The steady shrill scream of the cicadas, 00:28:12.640 --> 00:28:16.420 align:middle line:84% clocks second hand ratcheting stiffly around, 00:28:16.420 --> 00:28:19.930 align:middle line:84% dog in the distance barks once then is silent. 00:28:19.930 --> 00:28:24.100 align:middle line:84% Once it's not barking, but just to clear his throat. 00:28:24.100 --> 00:28:27.430 align:middle line:84% Fridge groans on, its hum balancing 00:28:27.430 --> 00:28:29.320 align:middle line:90% the insect-laden woods. 00:28:29.320 --> 00:28:31.960 align:middle line:90% How many words have I left? 00:28:31.960 --> 00:28:35.980 align:middle line:84% Use them wisely, sparingly, each could outlast me 00:28:35.980 --> 00:28:37.270 align:middle line:90% to what purpose. 00:28:37.270 --> 00:28:39.850 align:middle line:84% But this compulsive record forward 00:28:39.850 --> 00:28:44.200 align:middle line:84% from the age of a small, mid-century lad sitting 00:28:44.200 --> 00:28:48.070 align:middle line:84% cross-legged on my bed, scribbling anything to be free. 00:28:48.070 --> 00:28:49.720 align:middle line:90% Anything to make sense. 00:28:49.720 --> 00:28:53.020 align:middle line:84% Peel cellophane from a new tea carton. 00:28:53.020 --> 00:28:55.510 align:middle line:90% No indication where it's grown. 00:28:55.510 --> 00:28:56.620 align:middle line:90% Argentina. 00:28:56.620 --> 00:28:59.230 align:middle line:90% No record, no sense of the map. 00:28:59.230 --> 00:29:02.770 align:middle line:84% Heywood calls his first book Cartographers. 00:29:02.770 --> 00:29:04.390 align:middle line:90% Was there ever a second? 00:29:04.390 --> 00:29:08.050 align:middle line:84% A sense now, over half a century, intricate puzzle. 00:29:08.050 --> 00:29:12.130 align:middle line:84% Grandmother reduced to ash, grandfather, no more silent 00:29:12.130 --> 00:29:16.120 align:middle line:84% than ever just for being dead, sip today's first tea. 00:29:16.120 --> 00:29:17.770 align:middle line:90% The warmth is half of it. 00:29:17.770 --> 00:29:22.480 align:middle line:84% My throat first craves table, narrow in the kitchen alcove, 00:29:22.480 --> 00:29:27.220 align:middle line:84% West Virginia, A-frame cabin, clock with a different birdsong 00:29:27.220 --> 00:29:29.650 align:middle line:90% for every hour, sans kids. 00:29:29.650 --> 00:29:34.210 align:middle line:84% What have you to etch these words into time, applause. 00:29:34.210 --> 00:29:38.590 align:middle line:84% Once we crossed the border, my 47 state family myths 00:29:38.590 --> 00:29:40.390 align:middle line:90% arc over generations. 00:29:40.390 --> 00:29:43.570 align:middle line:84% John Franklin Townsley could not have 00:29:43.570 --> 00:29:45.670 align:middle line:84% known, telling any who would listen, 00:29:45.670 --> 00:29:49.900 align:middle line:84% that yes the explorer, yes his own grandfather, yes, 00:29:49.900 --> 00:29:54.820 align:middle line:84% but the grandson Richard goes back a century later, looks up, 00:29:54.820 --> 00:29:56.230 align:middle line:90% finds the marriage record. 00:29:56.230 --> 00:29:57.670 align:middle line:90% Yes, John Franklin. 00:29:57.670 --> 00:29:59.110 align:middle line:90% Yes, Mary Jane. 00:29:59.110 --> 00:30:02.650 align:middle line:84% But instead a fishmonger married a weaver's daughter. 00:30:02.650 --> 00:30:04.540 align:middle line:90% X marks the signature. 00:30:04.540 --> 00:30:07.870 align:middle line:84% How soon technology catches you out. 00:30:07.870 --> 00:30:11.710 align:middle line:84% These keys, an act surveillance that will only 00:30:11.710 --> 00:30:13.990 align:middle line:90% sink deeper over time. 00:30:13.990 --> 00:30:18.460 align:middle line:84% What you think about that from comma to coma to commerce 00:30:18.460 --> 00:30:21.040 align:middle line:90% to con, versus subjugation. 00:30:21.040 --> 00:30:24.400 align:middle line:84% The root marks language as route across form. 00:30:24.400 --> 00:30:28.990 align:middle line:84% Surname in the family now, just four generations, but literacy 00:30:28.990 --> 00:30:30.340 align:middle line:90% no more than six. 00:30:30.340 --> 00:30:34.420 align:middle line:84% So the arrogance am I then enacting, weaving ink 00:30:34.420 --> 00:30:38.620 align:middle line:84% into paper stains of a history already blanching and the light 00:30:38.620 --> 00:30:39.490 align:middle line:90% up above. 00:30:39.490 --> 00:30:44.360 align:middle line:84% I hear you stirring, rising, at least to sit up then slowly, 00:30:44.360 --> 00:30:48.130 align:middle line:84% quietly coming downstairs to use the bathroom. 00:30:48.130 --> 00:30:52.770 align:middle line:84% Dawn just starts to be visible through the blinds, 00:30:52.770 --> 00:30:55.650 align:middle line:84% soft glow, neither blue nor gray. 00:30:55.650 --> 00:30:57.480 align:middle line:90% Sun not yet visible. 00:30:57.480 --> 00:31:00.000 align:middle line:84% They're distinct, sun and the dawn. 00:31:00.000 --> 00:31:02.760 align:middle line:84% One recurs while the other stretches. 00:31:02.760 --> 00:31:05.520 align:middle line:84% Fans swirl slowly, high overhead. 00:31:05.520 --> 00:31:07.470 align:middle line:90% But the wind chime is still. 00:31:07.470 --> 00:31:10.020 align:middle line:84% A stack of new books await on the table, 00:31:10.020 --> 00:31:14.490 align:middle line:84% yet this blue one's a poem, 3,700 years old. 00:31:14.490 --> 00:31:16.650 align:middle line:90% I search for a tooth sword. 00:31:16.650 --> 00:31:20.340 align:middle line:84% Voices carry up the mountain, but the rooster is late. 00:31:20.340 --> 00:31:23.160 align:middle line:84% Woodpecker is rigorously insistent. 00:31:23.160 --> 00:31:27.600 align:middle line:84% Oak tree hall fell, but was caught by the larger oak. 00:31:27.600 --> 00:31:31.500 align:middle line:84% Jays scream, a cluster though I see no hawk. 00:31:31.500 --> 00:31:35.760 align:middle line:84% Lone, natural lake in the state is, in fact, a sinkhole, 00:31:35.760 --> 00:31:37.380 align:middle line:90% barely visible in summer. 00:31:37.380 --> 00:31:41.520 align:middle line:84% What is to be said for of Lost River Valley? 00:31:41.520 --> 00:31:45.780 align:middle line:84% Towns without stores, theaters, two schools shut for 00:31:45.780 --> 00:31:46.950 align:middle line:90% want of students. 00:31:46.950 --> 00:31:49.710 align:middle line:90% Chimes, still for lack of wind. 00:31:49.710 --> 00:31:53.460 align:middle line:84% The part that didn't secede is today punished for that. 00:31:53.460 --> 00:31:58.320 align:middle line:84% I remember the last veterans, centenarians in the 1950s, 00:31:58.320 --> 00:31:59.940 align:middle line:90% then the last widows. 00:31:59.940 --> 00:32:02.640 align:middle line:84% The very last just now passed on. 00:32:02.640 --> 00:32:06.690 align:middle line:84% In war between the cusp always of the next one. 00:32:06.690 --> 00:32:10.680 align:middle line:84% Hummingbird sense of time, red at the throat is that. 00:32:10.680 --> 00:32:13.350 align:middle line:84% Humans appear in slow motion, even 00:32:13.350 --> 00:32:16.680 align:middle line:84% the galloping gray mare, as if through emulsion, 00:32:16.680 --> 00:32:20.130 align:middle line:90% history is anxiety, breed here. 00:32:20.130 --> 00:32:23.490 align:middle line:84% Futures merge, mock, migrate, mesh, 00:32:23.490 --> 00:32:26.400 align:middle line:84% markets, more powerful than Marx imagined. 00:32:26.400 --> 00:32:29.820 align:middle line:84% New forests for old, scattered brick, metal. 00:32:29.820 --> 00:32:32.190 align:middle line:84% You can see where the garage exploded. 00:32:32.190 --> 00:32:33.990 align:middle line:90% Compost everything. 00:32:33.990 --> 00:32:38.280 align:middle line:84% At the end of the age of man, gender intended. 00:32:38.280 --> 00:32:41.860 align:middle line:84% Drive, he said, breed palimpsest of loss 00:32:41.860 --> 00:32:44.190 align:middle line:90% versus circus of denial. 00:32:44.190 --> 00:32:47.340 align:middle line:84% Ice floes melting southward to the drain. 00:32:47.340 --> 00:32:49.260 align:middle line:90% Illumination alters color. 00:32:49.260 --> 00:32:51.570 align:middle line:90% We need it, but wish it neutral. 00:32:51.570 --> 00:32:56.040 align:middle line:84% Imagine night visitors, not in green, but the muted real. 00:32:56.040 --> 00:33:00.360 align:middle line:84% Breathe deeply, air's cold flavor, rich in the throat. 00:33:00.360 --> 00:33:01.770 align:middle line:90% The pulse varies. 00:33:01.770 --> 00:33:05.580 align:middle line:84% Here more compacted, there gentle, constant throb. 00:33:05.580 --> 00:33:10.050 align:middle line:84% Each years this graphs shifts entropically, 00:33:10.050 --> 00:33:12.720 align:middle line:90% here steps down on the stairs. 00:33:12.720 --> 00:33:16.860 align:middle line:84% Coming down, I think of Doctor Williams carrying his mother up 00:33:16.860 --> 00:33:17.490 align:middle line:90% to bed. 00:33:17.490 --> 00:33:20.310 align:middle line:84% I wake cold yet covered in sweat. 00:33:20.310 --> 00:33:24.240 align:middle line:84% This curious organism, a shock to see it reflected. 00:33:24.240 --> 00:33:28.830 align:middle line:84% Night windows mock mirrors, our fears never very far, 00:33:28.830 --> 00:33:33.990 align:middle line:84% first require the new park to evict 465 families, 00:33:33.990 --> 00:33:36.120 align:middle line:90% an eye to preservation. 00:33:36.120 --> 00:33:40.680 align:middle line:84% Along the long drive, overlook upon overlook, tunnel through, 00:33:40.680 --> 00:33:43.800 align:middle line:84% head toward the stone wall, not three feet high. 00:33:43.800 --> 00:33:47.160 align:middle line:84% Stonewall Jackson dragged his troops up and then 00:33:47.160 --> 00:33:49.860 align:middle line:84% over the ridge down to greet his doom. 00:33:49.860 --> 00:33:52.410 align:middle line:90% A death by friendly fire. 00:33:52.410 --> 00:33:54.290 align:middle line:90% Thank you. 00:33:54.290 --> 00:33:55.000 align:middle line:90%