WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.170 align:middle line:90% 00:00:01.170 --> 00:00:03.450 align:middle line:84% Just one more of these, and I'll go to something 00:00:03.450 --> 00:00:05.560 align:middle line:90% a little different. 00:00:05.560 --> 00:00:07.530 align:middle line:84% This one is called "Plurality of Worlds." 00:00:07.530 --> 00:00:12.410 align:middle line:90% 00:00:12.410 --> 00:00:18.860 align:middle line:84% Unlike most of them, the title does connect with the poem. 00:00:18.860 --> 00:00:21.860 align:middle line:84% Not that the poem is any more meaningful than the others, 00:00:21.860 --> 00:00:25.730 align:middle line:84% but it does go with it in some way. 00:00:25.730 --> 00:00:29.890 align:middle line:90% 00:00:29.890 --> 00:00:34.040 align:middle line:90% "Plurality of Worlds." 00:00:34.040 --> 00:00:36.260 align:middle line:90% And each inhabited. 00:00:36.260 --> 00:00:39.530 align:middle line:90% And each inhabitant resolves. 00:00:39.530 --> 00:00:43.820 align:middle line:84% And I, I with my various processes, 00:00:43.820 --> 00:00:46.830 align:middle line:90% I stumble, I revolve. 00:00:46.830 --> 00:00:49.810 align:middle line:90% 00:00:49.810 --> 00:00:54.460 align:middle line:84% As one sees, in the desert, water welling, always distant, 00:00:54.460 --> 00:00:58.050 align:middle line:90% forever unapproachable. 00:00:58.050 --> 00:01:01.380 align:middle line:84% A view of the chase from the battlements. 00:01:01.380 --> 00:01:04.830 align:middle line:90% To see something-- anything-- 00:01:04.830 --> 00:01:07.460 align:middle line:90% I always step back. 00:01:07.460 --> 00:01:10.120 align:middle line:90% And then, where am I? 00:01:10.120 --> 00:01:13.110 align:middle line:90% 00:01:13.110 --> 00:01:14.220 align:middle line:90% Distant. 00:01:14.220 --> 00:01:15.690 align:middle line:90% Unapproachable. 00:01:15.690 --> 00:01:19.880 align:middle line:90% My name, Jericho. 00:01:19.880 --> 00:01:22.340 align:middle line:90% That's a joke. 00:01:22.340 --> 00:01:28.340 align:middle line:84% Waldrop and Jericho-- the walls fall down. 00:01:28.340 --> 00:01:32.660 align:middle line:84% Nobody has ever laughed at that until I explain 00:01:32.660 --> 00:01:35.562 align:middle line:84% it, in which somehow, I don't think 00:01:35.562 --> 00:01:36.770 align:middle line:90% they're laughing at the joke. 00:01:36.770 --> 00:01:38.450 align:middle line:90% But anyway-- 00:01:38.450 --> 00:01:41.150 align:middle line:90% My name, Jericho. 00:01:41.150 --> 00:01:45.620 align:middle line:90% Absurdly-- I mean, out of tune. 00:01:45.620 --> 00:01:50.030 align:middle line:84% And forgetfulness, deceit, error? 00:01:50.030 --> 00:01:52.870 align:middle line:90% 00:01:52.870 --> 00:01:58.520 align:middle line:84% For us to grow old, the moon must rise. 00:01:58.520 --> 00:02:02.060 align:middle line:84% From invisible fire, flames leap into view, 00:02:02.060 --> 00:02:06.950 align:middle line:90% a dream of bodily heaven. 00:02:06.950 --> 00:02:10.580 align:middle line:90% Hot colors, subtle nuances. 00:02:10.580 --> 00:02:14.450 align:middle line:84% Motives recast in site after site. 00:02:14.450 --> 00:02:19.440 align:middle line:84% Figures absorbed by a plethora of drapery. 00:02:19.440 --> 00:02:23.600 align:middle line:90% I must remove all this-- 00:02:23.600 --> 00:02:31.670 align:middle line:84% evening chill, an impression of transparency, your presence-- 00:02:31.670 --> 00:02:38.370 align:middle line:84% remove it all, without letting anything go. 00:02:38.370 --> 00:02:42.590 align:middle line:84% I was born in December, and things seem always 00:02:42.590 --> 00:02:46.750 align:middle line:90% to come at me like January. 00:02:46.750 --> 00:02:52.980 align:middle line:84% The fifty-third bird in the tree that morning. 00:02:52.980 --> 00:02:59.770 align:middle line:84% Joy, laughter, lamentation-- it's like a map. 00:02:59.770 --> 00:03:01.300 align:middle line:90% Minuet. 00:03:01.300 --> 00:03:02.890 align:middle line:90% Waltz. 00:03:02.890 --> 00:03:08.200 align:middle line:90% Ninety percent too dark to see. 00:03:08.200 --> 00:03:09.970 align:middle line:90% Let me think now-- 00:03:09.970 --> 00:03:14.140 align:middle line:90% roads, tombs, temples. 00:03:14.140 --> 00:03:18.080 align:middle line:90% I could list my friends. 00:03:18.080 --> 00:03:22.670 align:middle line:90% What will I forget next? 00:03:22.670 --> 00:03:28.270 align:middle line:84% Light, analyzed by dusk, and then? 00:03:28.270 --> 00:03:33.950 align:middle line:84% The specters still there, a painterly softening, 00:03:33.950 --> 00:03:37.085 align:middle line:90% almost heraldic poses. 00:03:37.085 --> 00:03:39.790 align:middle line:90% 00:03:39.790 --> 00:03:46.930 align:middle line:84% Long narrow slits of light, dark bars against bright ground, 00:03:46.930 --> 00:03:53.830 align:middle line:84% or straight-line borders peculiarly oriented. 00:03:53.830 --> 00:04:01.590 align:middle line:84% Looking one way, everything is lost. 00:04:01.590 --> 00:04:05.070 align:middle line:84% The other direction-- nothing to lose. 00:04:05.070 --> 00:04:08.926 align:middle line:90% 00:04:08.926 --> 00:04:18.010 align:middle line:84% In a crystal, I glimpse, maybe, my working state. 00:04:18.010 --> 00:04:20.890 align:middle line:90% My soul's fictitious body-- 00:04:20.890 --> 00:04:22.029 align:middle line:90% think. 00:04:22.029 --> 00:04:29.300 align:middle line:84% My health-- the world's long lingering illness. 00:04:29.300 --> 00:04:34.410 align:middle line:90% Pain, hot-cold, mere contact. 00:04:34.410 --> 00:04:36.840 align:middle line:90% Crude sensory modalities. 00:04:36.840 --> 00:04:41.940 align:middle line:84% These remain after destruction of the sensory cortex. 00:04:41.940 --> 00:04:47.660 align:middle line:84% Pain, shock waves, feathery feet of barnacles-- 00:04:47.660 --> 00:04:52.350 align:middle line:84% it does not reach us, the sun's bottomless profundo. 00:04:52.350 --> 00:04:55.200 align:middle line:90% 00:04:55.200 --> 00:05:02.880 align:middle line:84% Things age, and when old enough, no longer able to resist 00:05:02.880 --> 00:05:06.610 align:middle line:90% become animate. 00:05:06.610 --> 00:05:12.190 align:middle line:90% Unable to stay free of life. 00:05:12.190 --> 00:05:17.730 align:middle line:90% What remains of ancient rites? 00:05:17.730 --> 00:05:19.750 align:middle line:90% Grammar. 00:05:19.750 --> 00:05:23.250 align:middle line:84% I would never give up anything I have, 00:05:23.250 --> 00:05:27.380 align:middle line:90% in return for mere certainty. 00:05:27.380 --> 00:05:28.000 align:middle line:90%