Before you get rid of me, I'm actually
going to call Keith here, and we want
to read-- in between the two of us,
we want to read a collaboration.
The collaboration is called "Light Travels,"
and is a variant on the form of a renga, which
is for many poets, but there were only two of us,
and so we tinkered a little bit with the rules.
But you'll notice what happens.
So come closer to the microphone.
OK.
So "Light Travels."
"Light Travels."
Common time I follow you unkept secret on a basic undersound.
This is the first part of the rhyme.
Allow for sequences of overheard.
This is the first part of the rhyme.
Allow for sequences of overheard.
Close the curtains, but playful elaborations
of otherwise arrogant variations keeping the window open.
Close the curtains, but playful elaborations
of otherwise arrogant variations keeping the window open,
as it's wrong to shut one's eyes to dream.
It's raining while it is in fact raining.
As it's wrong to shut one's eyes to dream.
It's raining while it is in fact raining.
Ears busied with hearing more than one voice.
The stream our tears
Ears busy with hearing more than one voice.
The stream our tears unmirror, or mere error
as if naturally hard of divided.
Noise rings in our fears.
Or mere error as if naturally hard of divided noise
rings in our fears.
Expands danger within our long thin hands contract
across quiet gravel.
Expands danger within our long thin hands contract
across quiet gravel.
Narrow fruit tin cans, loss of the white of other eyes.
Song out of mind.
Song out of mind, or am I tethered?
So blind a coloring of thought?
Or am I tethered so blind a coloring of thought?
Intrinsically fuzzy, the sound as pavement
Intrinsically fuzzy, the sound as pavement?
Whereas, tenses are a later development.
Limits of a body open sea--
the great sea journey.
Limits of a body open sea, the great sea journey.
How different the grammars of to think or swim.
Reminiscence and extinction.
Thank you.
[APPLAUSE]