WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.070 align:middle line:90% 00:00:06.070 --> 00:00:07.300 align:middle line:90% Please advise. 00:00:07.300 --> 00:00:08.810 align:middle line:90% Stop. 00:00:08.810 --> 00:00:13.180 align:middle line:84% There was no moment of his death to see 00:00:13.180 --> 00:00:15.700 align:middle line:90% until it had already passed. 00:00:15.700 --> 00:00:17.380 align:middle line:90% Stop. 00:00:17.380 --> 00:00:23.200 align:middle line:84% Now, looking means drawing a line around each thing, 00:00:23.200 --> 00:00:25.480 align:middle line:90% daring it to cross. 00:00:25.480 --> 00:00:27.820 align:middle line:90% Stop. 00:00:27.820 --> 00:00:32.140 align:middle line:84% I keep my palms clean for this, and dry. 00:00:32.140 --> 00:00:34.270 align:middle line:90% Stop. 00:00:34.270 --> 00:00:38.890 align:middle line:84% Like leaves in wind, even the thinnest actions 00:00:38.890 --> 00:00:42.490 align:middle line:90% rake over me, only to disappear. 00:00:42.490 --> 00:00:44.900 align:middle line:90% Stop. 00:00:44.900 --> 00:00:50.770 align:middle line:84% Left with color and shape as meaning's only custodians. 00:00:50.770 --> 00:00:52.600 align:middle line:90% Stop. 00:00:52.600 --> 00:00:59.110 align:middle line:84% Warily, I turn my face, not sure my eyes will follow. 00:00:59.110 --> 00:01:01.810 align:middle line:90% Please. 00:01:01.810 --> 00:01:06.310 align:middle line:84% The hummingbird I've caught in a cotton towel 00:01:06.310 --> 00:01:09.700 align:middle line:84% will vanish if the towel is opened. 00:01:09.700 --> 00:01:11.800 align:middle line:90% Stop. 00:01:11.800 --> 00:01:18.100 align:middle line:84% The cellar that I dig will store all the hungers, 00:01:18.100 --> 00:01:20.800 align:middle line:90% but none of the rations. 00:01:20.800 --> 00:01:22.900 align:middle line:90% Stop. 00:01:22.900 --> 00:01:27.850 align:middle line:84% How to tell what must be kept and what 00:01:27.850 --> 00:01:30.520 align:middle line:90% must be kept provisional. 00:01:30.520 --> 00:01:31.300 align:middle line:90% Please advise. 00:01:31.300 --> 00:01:37.720 align:middle line:90% 00:01:37.720 --> 00:01:38.920 align:middle line:90% Please advise. 00:01:38.920 --> 00:01:40.510 align:middle line:90% Stop. 00:01:40.510 --> 00:01:46.870 align:middle line:84% Silently, my father's dying attends to the details 00:01:46.870 --> 00:01:48.850 align:middle line:90% of his disappearance. 00:01:48.850 --> 00:01:50.680 align:middle line:90% Stop. 00:01:50.680 --> 00:01:55.120 align:middle line:84% No cut glass chimes in fierce wind. 00:01:55.120 --> 00:01:56.200 align:middle line:90% Stop. 00:01:56.200 --> 00:01:59.710 align:middle line:90% No furtive closing of a door. 00:01:59.710 --> 00:02:01.840 align:middle line:90% Stop. 00:02:01.840 --> 00:02:07.390 align:middle line:84% A silence that is audible and without message. 00:02:07.390 --> 00:02:09.460 align:middle line:90% Stop. 00:02:09.460 --> 00:02:14.350 align:middle line:84% A silence from which I am excluded 00:02:14.350 --> 00:02:19.150 align:middle line:84% can teach me only exclusion's precision. 00:02:19.150 --> 00:02:21.310 align:middle line:90% Stop. 00:02:21.310 --> 00:02:27.220 align:middle line:84% There is emotion in his death, like a microscope lens 00:02:27.220 --> 00:02:28.810 align:middle line:90% focusing. 00:02:28.810 --> 00:02:30.850 align:middle line:90% Stop. 00:02:30.850 --> 00:02:35.500 align:middle line:84% As though everything outside my eyes and my ears' dominion 00:02:35.500 --> 00:02:37.900 align:middle line:90% turns to watch. 00:02:37.900 --> 00:02:39.850 align:middle line:90% Stop. 00:02:39.850 --> 00:02:43.540 align:middle line:84% A precision into which I can pour 00:02:43.540 --> 00:02:46.150 align:middle line:90% whatever I want to believe. 00:02:46.150 --> 00:02:47.710 align:middle line:90% Stop. 00:02:47.710 --> 00:02:50.260 align:middle line:90% Becomes an oblivion. 00:02:50.260 --> 00:02:53.410 align:middle line:90% Please advise. 00:02:53.410 --> 00:02:55.090 align:middle line:90% And one more from the book. 00:02:55.090 --> 00:02:56.410 align:middle line:90% Please advise. 00:02:56.410 --> 00:02:58.030 align:middle line:90% Stop. 00:02:58.030 --> 00:03:03.760 align:middle line:84% Wind is winter's reflection among the branches. 00:03:03.760 --> 00:03:05.410 align:middle line:90% Stop. 00:03:05.410 --> 00:03:08.980 align:middle line:84% True likenesses are never planned. 00:03:08.980 --> 00:03:10.390 align:middle line:90% Stop. 00:03:10.390 --> 00:03:17.170 align:middle line:84% Though magnifications may be choreographed, please, 00:03:17.170 --> 00:03:22.750 align:middle line:84% sky falls through every window differently. 00:03:22.750 --> 00:03:25.320 align:middle line:90% Stop. 00:03:25.320 --> 00:03:30.360 align:middle line:84% Irresistibly drawn into a sudden intake of breath 00:03:30.360 --> 00:03:34.810 align:middle line:84% is the thought that will perfectly fit its shape. 00:03:34.810 --> 00:03:35.310 align:middle line:90% Please. 00:03:35.310 --> 00:03:37.950 align:middle line:90% 00:03:37.950 --> 00:03:43.050 align:middle line:84% Ocean's water absorbed into air is severed 00:03:43.050 --> 00:03:45.720 align:middle line:90% from its predictive tide. 00:03:45.720 --> 00:03:48.180 align:middle line:90% Stop. 00:03:48.180 --> 00:03:51.630 align:middle line:84% Only as the seasons change will I 00:03:51.630 --> 00:03:55.650 align:middle line:90% see which fears are migratory. 00:03:55.650 --> 00:03:57.480 align:middle line:90% Stop. 00:03:57.480 --> 00:04:00.600 align:middle line:84% And which of the empty voices have erected 00:04:00.600 --> 00:04:03.870 align:middle line:90% for themselves limestone walls. 00:04:03.870 --> 00:04:06.300 align:middle line:90% Stop. 00:04:06.300 --> 00:04:11.070 align:middle line:84% Into the dark trees, invite the darker birds. 00:04:11.070 --> 00:04:13.070 align:middle line:90% Please advise. 00:04:13.070 --> 00:04:15.000 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