WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.540 align:middle line:90% 00:00:02.540 --> 00:00:05.630 align:middle line:84% And this last poem is from a book 00:00:05.630 --> 00:00:08.300 align:middle line:90% called, The Alps, which was-- 00:00:08.300 --> 00:00:11.480 align:middle line:84% which is a book I wrote for my parents. 00:00:11.480 --> 00:00:15.710 align:middle line:84% It's crudely about the day they got married in 1972 00:00:15.710 --> 00:00:16.700 align:middle line:90% in the Swiss Alps. 00:00:16.700 --> 00:00:20.270 align:middle line:84% So it's a sort of a big wedding celebration. 00:00:20.270 --> 00:00:22.670 align:middle line:84% And because I'm anti-wedding, it's 00:00:22.670 --> 00:00:24.320 align:middle line:90% sort of an anti-celebration. 00:00:24.320 --> 00:00:28.500 align:middle line:90% 00:00:28.500 --> 00:00:35.140 align:middle line:84% And the title of this one is Trinity Neutrality, the Draft. 00:00:35.140 --> 00:00:37.240 align:middle line:84% "The day the Trinity weapon was tested, 00:00:37.240 --> 00:00:40.690 align:middle line:84% heat massaged, someone pushing by the shoulders. 00:00:40.690 --> 00:00:42.730 align:middle line:90% I fell back into the river. 00:00:42.730 --> 00:00:46.870 align:middle line:84% There were no grunts, arrows split the gates. 00:00:46.870 --> 00:00:51.490 align:middle line:84% The pond black, threw to slow pivoting deer, fight, 00:00:51.490 --> 00:00:55.210 align:middle line:84% ice parts, noise like a lady winding her skirts 00:00:55.210 --> 00:00:57.040 align:middle line:90% around halved bodies. 00:00:57.040 --> 00:01:00.190 align:middle line:84% Daughters encasing, lit periodically. 00:01:00.190 --> 00:01:06.220 align:middle line:84% Blue holiday lights, Schrund Herba goat, Garland, 00:01:06.220 --> 00:01:10.600 align:middle line:84% a partial pictorial vote, Campion, eagle, worker, 00:01:10.600 --> 00:01:15.700 align:middle line:84% passenger, Bavarian, ringing the waddle of any bird what dare. 00:01:15.700 --> 00:01:17.260 align:middle line:90% Pansies grow. 00:01:17.260 --> 00:01:22.540 align:middle line:84% Lace, cida, soldanella, boar, the entire beast spread 00:01:22.540 --> 00:01:25.630 align:middle line:84% before the last leg, stripped from the mouth. 00:01:25.630 --> 00:01:30.790 align:middle line:84% Lesser, ash, butter, Cassandra, another ghost soldier 00:01:30.790 --> 00:01:34.060 align:middle line:90% by default. 00:01:34.060 --> 00:01:36.370 align:middle line:84% The day the Trinity weapon was deployed, 00:01:36.370 --> 00:01:39.070 align:middle line:84% I kept myself between the ostensible routes 00:01:39.070 --> 00:01:42.490 align:middle line:84% loose in the melt. jute plants knocking, 00:01:42.490 --> 00:01:44.770 align:middle line:84% miniature soldiers, ascending the sails 00:01:44.770 --> 00:01:47.680 align:middle line:84% of the handcrafted mills, to write 00:01:47.680 --> 00:01:51.550 align:middle line:84% from the sun on the roadside, ripping amiable locals. 00:01:51.550 --> 00:01:55.990 align:middle line:90% 00:01:55.990 --> 00:02:01.020 align:middle line:84% I love the way fat spreads across hardening rolls. 00:02:01.020 --> 00:02:04.980 align:middle line:90% I love sardines in a good way. 00:02:04.980 --> 00:02:09.449 align:middle line:84% I love the way sardines pour off the shoulders of men and women 00:02:09.449 --> 00:02:12.900 align:middle line:90% standing on cold tiles. 00:02:12.900 --> 00:02:15.330 align:middle line:90% I love yogurt. 00:02:15.330 --> 00:02:17.800 align:middle line:90% I love cheese. 00:02:17.800 --> 00:02:21.150 align:middle line:84% I love sticking my finger into the holes, 00:02:21.150 --> 00:02:24.660 align:middle line:84% in the trunks of old pines, pulling it out, 00:02:24.660 --> 00:02:27.690 align:middle line:90% not with sap, but with yogurt. 00:02:27.690 --> 00:02:30.180 align:middle line:90% I love grapes. 00:02:30.180 --> 00:02:30.870 align:middle line:90% I love bread. 00:02:30.870 --> 00:02:33.850 align:middle line:90% 00:02:33.850 --> 00:02:36.670 align:middle line:84% I love the way bread explodes when 00:02:36.670 --> 00:02:40.930 align:middle line:84% pulled apart by two people in fatal desperation. 00:02:40.930 --> 00:02:45.190 align:middle line:84% I climb inside my love of fatal desperation. 00:02:45.190 --> 00:02:50.890 align:middle line:84% I climb inside my love of beef, slow moving against my eyes. 00:02:50.890 --> 00:02:53.650 align:middle line:90% I suck beef from the vine. 00:02:53.650 --> 00:02:56.050 align:middle line:90% I suck butter from grapes. 00:02:56.050 --> 00:02:57.640 align:middle line:90% I love tongues. 00:02:57.640 --> 00:02:59.230 align:middle line:90% I love beef tongues. 00:02:59.230 --> 00:03:02.425 align:middle line:84% I love to sink my hands sideways into beef tongues. 00:03:02.425 --> 00:03:05.410 align:middle line:90% 00:03:05.410 --> 00:03:07.960 align:middle line:84% They said my grandfather bit off his tongue 00:03:07.960 --> 00:03:10.210 align:middle line:84% and spit it out the window of the train, 00:03:10.210 --> 00:03:14.800 align:middle line:84% carrying from the South to the high flame desert of the North. 00:03:14.800 --> 00:03:18.520 align:middle line:84% As it turns out, it was not his tongue he bit, 00:03:18.520 --> 00:03:21.070 align:middle line:90% but love fell from the window. 00:03:21.070 --> 00:03:23.740 align:middle line:84% I love how love fell from the window, 00:03:23.740 --> 00:03:28.390 align:middle line:84% turning lead into a small circle of dried leaves by a river. 00:03:28.390 --> 00:03:30.970 align:middle line:90% There was one living leaf. 00:03:30.970 --> 00:03:34.510 align:middle line:84% I don't mind that there was one living leaf. 00:03:34.510 --> 00:03:38.290 align:middle line:84% By the one living leaf, I spread myself. 00:03:38.290 --> 00:03:44.890 align:middle line:84% Apples-- I love hard, green peaches, meatballs, 00:03:44.890 --> 00:03:47.920 align:middle line:84% the way fruit explodes when a body 00:03:47.920 --> 00:03:55.030 align:middle line:84% is dropped from above onto fruit, ham, of course, milk. 00:03:55.030 --> 00:03:56.790 align:middle line:90% Thank you. 00:03:56.790 --> 00:04:08.000 align:middle line:90%