WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.810 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.810 --> 00:00:03.600 align:middle line:84% And the last poem I'm going to read 00:00:03.600 --> 00:00:07.740 align:middle line:84% is called "Through the Smoke Hole." 00:00:07.740 --> 00:00:14.530 align:middle line:84% It is a medium long poem and three sections. 00:00:14.530 --> 00:00:18.030 align:middle line:90% 00:00:18.030 --> 00:00:21.420 align:middle line:84% I think probably most of you down here 00:00:21.420 --> 00:00:26.280 align:middle line:84% in this part of the country know that the pueblo kiva was 00:00:26.280 --> 00:00:29.580 align:middle line:84% entered through the ceiling through the smoke hole 00:00:29.580 --> 00:00:30.690 align:middle line:90% by a ladder. 00:00:30.690 --> 00:00:34.020 align:middle line:84% And also many other types of Indian 00:00:34.020 --> 00:00:38.040 align:middle line:84% houses in California in the Southwest, not necessarily 00:00:38.040 --> 00:00:42.360 align:middle line:84% ceremonial constructions, but dwellings 00:00:42.360 --> 00:00:49.260 align:middle line:84% were entered through the smoke hole at the top. 00:00:49.260 --> 00:00:53.950 align:middle line:84% Now I can't say much more than that about this poem, 00:00:53.950 --> 00:00:56.760 align:middle line:84% except that it was actually-- it came to be actually 00:00:56.760 --> 00:01:04.019 align:middle line:84% as a kind of, shall I call, religious geological vision. 00:01:04.019 --> 00:01:09.090 align:middle line:90% 00:01:09.090 --> 00:01:11.490 align:middle line:84% And I think the first part might help 00:01:11.490 --> 00:01:12.900 align:middle line:90% make the second part clearer. 00:01:12.900 --> 00:01:16.040 align:middle line:90% 00:01:16.040 --> 00:01:19.820 align:middle line:84% There is another world above this one or outside 00:01:19.820 --> 00:01:20.480 align:middle line:90% of this one. 00:01:20.480 --> 00:01:23.850 align:middle line:84% The way to it is through the smoke of this one and the hole 00:01:23.850 --> 00:01:26.480 align:middle line:90% that smoke goes through. 00:01:26.480 --> 00:01:29.420 align:middle line:84% The ladder is the way through the smoke hole. 00:01:29.420 --> 00:01:32.870 align:middle line:84% The ladder holds up, some say, the world above. 00:01:32.870 --> 00:01:35.360 align:middle line:84% It might have been a tree or pole. 00:01:35.360 --> 00:01:38.600 align:middle line:90% I think it is merely a way. 00:01:38.600 --> 00:01:40.520 align:middle line:84% Fire is at the foot of the ladder. 00:01:40.520 --> 00:01:42.110 align:middle line:90% The fire is in the center. 00:01:42.110 --> 00:01:44.030 align:middle line:90% The walls are round. 00:01:44.030 --> 00:01:47.840 align:middle line:84% There is also another world below or inside this one. 00:01:47.840 --> 00:01:50.930 align:middle line:84% The way there is down through smoke. 00:01:50.930 --> 00:01:54.920 align:middle line:84% It is not necessary to think of a series. 00:01:54.920 --> 00:01:58.580 align:middle line:84% Raven and Magpie do not need the ladder. 00:01:58.580 --> 00:02:02.300 align:middle line:84% They fly through the smoke holes shrieking and stealing. 00:02:02.300 --> 00:02:05.330 align:middle line:90% Coyote falls through. 00:02:05.330 --> 00:02:08.630 align:middle line:84% We recognize him only as a clumsy relative, 00:02:08.630 --> 00:02:14.420 align:middle line:84% a father in old clothes we don't wish to see with our friends. 00:02:14.420 --> 00:02:17.390 align:middle line:84% It is possible to cultivate the fields of our own world 00:02:17.390 --> 00:02:20.240 align:middle line:84% without much thought for the others. 00:02:20.240 --> 00:02:21.810 align:middle line:90% When men emerge from below-- 00:02:21.810 --> 00:02:23.150 align:middle line:90% Now this is the important part. 00:02:23.150 --> 00:02:27.350 align:middle line:84% --we see them as the masked dancers of our magic dreams. 00:02:27.350 --> 00:02:29.480 align:middle line:84% When men disappear down, we see them 00:02:29.480 --> 00:02:32.360 align:middle line:84% as plain men going somewhere else. 00:02:32.360 --> 00:02:34.520 align:middle line:84% When men disappear up, we see them 00:02:34.520 --> 00:02:37.340 align:middle line:84% as great heroes shining through the smoke. 00:02:37.340 --> 00:02:40.370 align:middle line:84% When men come back from above, they fall through and tumble. 00:02:40.370 --> 00:02:43.620 align:middle line:84% We don't really know them, Coyote as mentioned before. 00:02:43.620 --> 00:02:47.440 align:middle line:90% 00:02:47.440 --> 00:02:53.380 align:middle line:84% Out of the kiva come masked dancers or plain men. 00:02:53.380 --> 00:02:56.320 align:middle line:90% Plain men go into the ground. 00:02:56.320 --> 00:03:02.230 align:middle line:84% Out there, outside, all the chores, wood and water, dirt, 00:03:02.230 --> 00:03:05.380 align:middle line:90% wind, the view across the flat. 00:03:05.380 --> 00:03:09.810 align:middle line:90% Here in the round no corners. 00:03:09.810 --> 00:03:13.390 align:middle line:90% Head is full of magic figures. 00:03:13.390 --> 00:03:16.870 align:middle line:84% Woman your secrets aren't my secrets. 00:03:16.870 --> 00:03:19.660 align:middle line:90% What I can't say I won't. 00:03:19.660 --> 00:03:22.120 align:middle line:90% Walk round. 00:03:22.120 --> 00:03:24.940 align:middle line:90% Put my hand flat down. 00:03:24.940 --> 00:03:30.640 align:middle line:84% You in the round too, gourd vine blossom. 00:03:30.640 --> 00:03:35.005 align:middle line:84% Walls and houses drawn up from the same soft soil. 00:03:35.005 --> 00:03:38.350 align:middle line:90% 00:03:38.350 --> 00:03:43.120 align:middle line:84% 30 million years gone, drifting sand. 00:03:43.120 --> 00:03:47.200 align:middle line:84% Cool rooms, pink stone, worn down fort floor, 00:03:47.200 --> 00:03:52.570 align:middle line:84% slat sighting, heat shine on Junma River. 00:03:52.570 --> 00:03:57.880 align:middle line:84% Dry wash, truck tracks in the riverbed, coiled sand pinyon. 00:03:57.880 --> 00:04:00.400 align:middle line:90% 00:04:00.400 --> 00:04:07.660 align:middle line:84% seabottom, riverbank, sand dunes. 00:04:07.660 --> 00:04:12.100 align:middle line:90% The floor of a sea once again. 00:04:12.100 --> 00:04:17.170 align:middle line:84% Human fertilizer, underground water tunnels, 00:04:17.170 --> 00:04:23.500 align:middle line:84% skinny dirt gods, grandmother berries. 00:04:23.500 --> 00:04:31.330 align:middle line:84% Out Through the smoke hole, for childhood and youth are vanity. 00:04:31.330 --> 00:04:37.270 align:middle line:84% A Permian reef of algae, out through the smoke hole 00:04:37.270 --> 00:04:42.160 align:middle line:84% swallowed sand, salt mud, swum bodies, 00:04:42.160 --> 00:04:46.570 align:middle line:90% flat to the limestone blanket. 00:04:46.570 --> 00:04:50.560 align:middle line:90% Lizard tongue, lizard tongue. 00:04:50.560 --> 00:04:54.970 align:middle line:84% Wha, wha, wha, flying in and out through the smoke hole. 00:04:54.970 --> 00:04:57.970 align:middle line:84% Plain men come out of the ground. 00:04:57.970 --> 00:05:01.433 align:middle line:90% 00:05:01.433 --> 00:05:06.134 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:05:06.134 --> 00:05:26.000 align:middle line:90%