WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.830 align:middle line:90% 00:00:03.830 --> 00:00:11.540 align:middle line:84% Well, now you'll have a very long problem with mic. 00:00:11.540 --> 00:00:15.860 align:middle line:84% It's so long that it isn't finished. 00:00:15.860 --> 00:00:22.400 align:middle line:84% And what is here are five parts translated 00:00:22.400 --> 00:00:27.950 align:middle line:84% by Sam Charters who is a poet from California who 00:00:27.950 --> 00:00:28.655 align:middle line:90% lives in Sweden. 00:00:28.655 --> 00:00:36.080 align:middle line:90% 00:00:36.080 --> 00:00:39.500 align:middle line:84% Well, I have to talk a little first. 00:00:39.500 --> 00:00:44.510 align:middle line:84% It's called Baltics, which is a non-existent plural 00:00:44.510 --> 00:00:48.020 align:middle line:90% form of the Baltic. 00:00:48.020 --> 00:00:51.050 align:middle line:84% And as you know, this is sea which 00:00:51.050 --> 00:00:54.440 align:middle line:84% is East of Sweden and between Sweden 00:00:54.440 --> 00:00:57.260 align:middle line:84% and Soviet, and between Sweden and Poland, 00:00:57.260 --> 00:00:58.250 align:middle line:90% and Sweden and Finland. 00:00:58.250 --> 00:01:01.804 align:middle line:90% 00:01:01.804 --> 00:01:08.315 align:middle line:84% And the whole poem is a sort of bag where I put everything. 00:01:08.315 --> 00:01:10.910 align:middle line:84% It's nature of poetry, it's politics, 00:01:10.910 --> 00:01:15.740 align:middle line:84% it's also by biographical things, it's about my ancestors 00:01:15.740 --> 00:01:17.690 align:middle line:90% and so on. 00:01:17.690 --> 00:01:22.130 align:middle line:84% Actually it's a documentary form, part of it. 00:01:22.130 --> 00:01:25.550 align:middle line:84% What I tell you is absolutely the truth so 00:01:25.550 --> 00:01:28.220 align:middle line:90% I didn't invent anything. 00:01:28.220 --> 00:01:31.110 align:middle line:90% It started three years ago. 00:01:31.110 --> 00:01:39.990 align:middle line:84% I found an almanac which was my mother's father. 00:01:39.990 --> 00:01:42.860 align:middle line:90% My maternal grandfather had a-- 00:01:42.860 --> 00:01:45.990 align:middle line:90% he was a pilot. 00:01:45.990 --> 00:01:49.265 align:middle line:84% And he had written down the ships he piloted. 00:01:49.265 --> 00:01:52.310 align:middle line:90% 00:01:52.310 --> 00:02:02.054 align:middle line:84% There were many almanacs from 1882 to 1889. 00:02:02.054 --> 00:02:05.120 align:middle line:84% I come originally from the archipelago 00:02:05.120 --> 00:02:12.500 align:middle line:84% outside the Swedish East Coast, where I have my roots to say. 00:02:12.500 --> 00:02:16.040 align:middle line:90% 00:02:16.040 --> 00:02:18.580 align:middle line:84% Well, some exotic names here which 00:02:18.580 --> 00:02:25.060 align:middle line:84% are Swedish harbors and and also harbors on the other shore, 00:02:25.060 --> 00:02:27.280 align:middle line:90% the other Baltic shores. 00:02:27.280 --> 00:02:31.610 align:middle line:90% 00:02:31.610 --> 00:02:32.840 align:middle line:90% Well, part one. 00:02:32.840 --> 00:02:35.840 align:middle line:90% 00:02:35.840 --> 00:02:40.190 align:middle line:84% It was before the time of radio masts. 00:02:40.190 --> 00:02:43.190 align:middle line:84% My mother's father was a newly licensed pilot. 00:02:43.190 --> 00:02:45.170 align:middle line:84% In the almanac he wrote down the vessels 00:02:45.170 --> 00:02:49.415 align:middle line:84% he piloted, name, destination, craft. 00:02:49.415 --> 00:02:52.220 align:middle line:90% 00:02:52.220 --> 00:02:54.710 align:middle line:90% Examples from 1884. 00:02:54.710 --> 00:02:58.560 align:middle line:84% Steamer Tiger, Captain Rowan, 16 feet, Hull, 00:02:58.560 --> 00:03:02.210 align:middle line:90% [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]. 00:03:02.210 --> 00:03:05.930 align:middle line:84% [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH],, Captain [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH],, 8 feet, 00:03:05.930 --> 00:03:10.410 align:middle line:84% [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH] and [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH].. 00:03:10.410 --> 00:03:15.150 align:middle line:84% Steamer St. Petersburg, Captain Liebenberg, 11 feet, Stettin, 00:03:15.150 --> 00:03:16.135 align:middle line:90% Libow, Sundholm. 00:03:16.135 --> 00:03:19.680 align:middle line:90% 00:03:19.680 --> 00:03:23.070 align:middle line:84% He took them out to the Baltic through the wonderful labyrinth 00:03:23.070 --> 00:03:26.040 align:middle line:90% of islands in the water. 00:03:26.040 --> 00:03:28.770 align:middle line:84% And the ones that met on board and were 00:03:28.770 --> 00:03:34.080 align:middle line:84% born by the same hull for a few hours or a few days, 00:03:34.080 --> 00:03:37.650 align:middle line:84% how well did they get to know each other? 00:03:37.650 --> 00:03:40.260 align:middle line:84% Talking in misspelled English, understanding 00:03:40.260 --> 00:03:45.270 align:middle line:84% and misunderstanding, but very little conscious lying. 00:03:45.270 --> 00:03:49.500 align:middle line:84% How well did they get to know each other? 00:03:49.500 --> 00:03:52.950 align:middle line:84% When it was thick fog, half speed, almost blind, 00:03:52.950 --> 00:03:55.830 align:middle line:84% the headland coming out of the invisibility 00:03:55.830 --> 00:03:59.910 align:middle line:84% with a single stride, it was right on them. 00:03:59.910 --> 00:04:02.490 align:middle line:84% Foghorn blasting every other minute. 00:04:02.490 --> 00:04:06.720 align:middle line:84% His eyes reading straight into the invisible. 00:04:06.720 --> 00:04:10.170 align:middle line:84% Did he have the labyrinth in his head? 00:04:10.170 --> 00:04:12.930 align:middle line:90% The minutes went by. 00:04:12.930 --> 00:04:17.550 align:middle line:84% Land or reefs memorized like hymn verses 00:04:17.550 --> 00:04:21.839 align:middle line:84% and the feeling of we are right here that you have to keep. 00:04:21.839 --> 00:04:24.870 align:middle line:84% Like carrying a pail filled to the brim 00:04:24.870 --> 00:04:26.175 align:middle line:90% without spilling a drop. 00:04:26.175 --> 00:04:28.810 align:middle line:90% 00:04:28.810 --> 00:04:31.240 align:middle line:84% Glance down into the engine room. 00:04:31.240 --> 00:04:34.210 align:middle line:84% The compound engine as long lived 00:04:34.210 --> 00:04:37.660 align:middle line:84% as a human heart worked with great soft recoiling 00:04:37.660 --> 00:04:41.590 align:middle line:84% movements, steel acrobatics, and the smells 00:04:41.590 --> 00:04:43.915 align:middle line:84% rising from it as from a kitchen. 00:04:43.915 --> 00:04:52.830 align:middle line:90% 00:04:52.830 --> 00:04:55.400 align:middle line:90% Two. 00:04:55.400 --> 00:04:57.350 align:middle line:84% I should mention that [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH] is 00:04:57.350 --> 00:05:02.180 align:middle line:84% the Latin name of a shell, which the [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH].. 00:05:02.180 --> 00:05:07.340 align:middle line:84% Sailors often took home for decorate their gardens with. 00:05:07.340 --> 00:05:10.250 align:middle line:90% 00:05:10.250 --> 00:05:10.750 align:middle line:90% Two. 00:05:10.750 --> 00:05:14.200 align:middle line:90% 00:05:14.200 --> 00:05:16.570 align:middle line:84% The wind walks in the pine forest. 00:05:16.570 --> 00:05:18.460 align:middle line:90% It sighs heavily, lightly. 00:05:18.460 --> 00:05:20.980 align:middle line:90% 00:05:20.980 --> 00:05:23.890 align:middle line:84% In the middle of the island the Baltic also sighs. 00:05:23.890 --> 00:05:26.830 align:middle line:84% Deep in the forest you're out on the open sea. 00:05:26.830 --> 00:05:29.420 align:middle line:90% 00:05:29.420 --> 00:05:32.150 align:middle line:84% The old woman hated the sighing in the trees. 00:05:32.150 --> 00:05:36.020 align:middle line:84% Her face hardened in melancholy when the wind rose. 00:05:36.020 --> 00:05:39.890 align:middle line:84% You have to think of those out there in the boats. 00:05:39.890 --> 00:05:43.160 align:middle line:84% But she also heard something else in the sighing as I do. 00:05:43.160 --> 00:05:45.740 align:middle line:90% We are related. 00:05:45.740 --> 00:05:47.390 align:middle line:90% We are walking together. 00:05:47.390 --> 00:05:50.360 align:middle line:90% She has been dead for 30 years. 00:05:50.360 --> 00:05:53.660 align:middle line:84% It sighs yes and no, understanding 00:05:53.660 --> 00:05:55.490 align:middle line:90% and misunderstanding. 00:05:55.490 --> 00:05:59.600 align:middle line:84% It sighs three children healthy, one in the sanitarium, 00:05:59.600 --> 00:06:02.630 align:middle line:90% and two dead. 00:06:02.630 --> 00:06:06.800 align:middle line:84% The broad current that blows some flames into life and blows 00:06:06.800 --> 00:06:12.130 align:middle line:90% others out, conditions. 00:06:12.130 --> 00:06:19.630 align:middle line:84% Its size, save me Lord the waters are coming onto my soul. 00:06:19.630 --> 00:06:22.190 align:middle line:84% You walk around listening for a long time, 00:06:22.190 --> 00:06:24.640 align:middle line:84% finally reaching the point where the boundaries begin 00:06:24.640 --> 00:06:26.770 align:middle line:90% to open up. 00:06:26.770 --> 00:06:32.350 align:middle line:84% Or rather where everything becomes boundaries. 00:06:32.350 --> 00:06:35.650 align:middle line:84% An open square sank in darkness, people 00:06:35.650 --> 00:06:39.940 align:middle line:84% streaming out of the dimly lit buildings around it murmuring. 00:06:39.940 --> 00:06:42.700 align:middle line:90% 00:06:42.700 --> 00:06:44.530 align:middle line:84% A new gust of wind and the square 00:06:44.530 --> 00:06:47.530 align:middle line:90% again lies solitary and still. 00:06:47.530 --> 00:06:52.150 align:middle line:84% A new gust of wind, that size of other shores. 00:06:52.150 --> 00:06:54.280 align:middle line:90% It deals with war. 00:06:54.280 --> 00:06:57.580 align:middle line:84% It deals with places where the citizens are controlled, 00:06:57.580 --> 00:07:01.540 align:middle line:84% where thoughts are built with emergency exits, 00:07:01.540 --> 00:07:03.220 align:middle line:84% where a conversation between friends 00:07:03.220 --> 00:07:06.425 align:middle line:84% is really a test of what friendship means, 00:07:06.425 --> 00:07:08.050 align:middle line:84% and when you are together with somebody 00:07:08.050 --> 00:07:11.560 align:middle line:90% you don't know well, control. 00:07:11.560 --> 00:07:14.020 align:middle line:84% A certain frankness is all right if you just 00:07:14.020 --> 00:07:16.240 align:middle line:84% don't lose sight of something drifting there 00:07:16.240 --> 00:07:18.280 align:middle line:84% on the outskirts of the conversation, 00:07:18.280 --> 00:07:21.730 align:middle line:84% something dark, the dark stain, something 00:07:21.730 --> 00:07:25.450 align:middle line:84% that can drift in and destroy everything, 00:07:25.450 --> 00:07:27.610 align:middle line:90% don't lose sight of it. 00:07:27.610 --> 00:07:29.200 align:middle line:90% What can it be compared with? 00:07:29.200 --> 00:07:30.980 align:middle line:90% A mine? 00:07:30.980 --> 00:07:36.040 align:middle line:84% No, that would be too solid and almost too peaceful 00:07:36.040 --> 00:07:40.330 align:middle line:84% since on our coast most stories about mines end happily. 00:07:40.330 --> 00:07:44.800 align:middle line:84% The terror limited to the moment as this story 00:07:44.800 --> 00:07:46.210 align:middle line:90% from the light ship. 00:07:46.210 --> 00:07:49.570 align:middle line:84% Fall 1915, we were sleeping uneasily, et cetera. 00:07:49.570 --> 00:07:52.600 align:middle line:84% A drifting mine was cited as it floated calmly 00:07:52.600 --> 00:07:54.100 align:middle line:90% toward the light ship. 00:07:54.100 --> 00:07:58.330 align:middle line:84% It was sinking, heaving up, at times hidden by the waves, 00:07:58.330 --> 00:08:01.840 align:middle line:84% at times glimpsed like spy in the crowd. 00:08:01.840 --> 00:08:04.540 align:middle line:84% The crew lying there in agony, shooting at it 00:08:04.540 --> 00:08:06.940 align:middle line:90% with rifles without success. 00:08:06.940 --> 00:08:10.600 align:middle line:84% Finally, they put out the boat and made the long line 00:08:10.600 --> 00:08:13.430 align:middle line:84% fast to the mine and touted carefully and slowly 00:08:13.430 --> 00:08:14.365 align:middle line:90% into the experts. 00:08:14.365 --> 00:08:17.530 align:middle line:90% 00:08:17.530 --> 00:08:20.500 align:middle line:84% Afterwards, they set up the mine's dark shale 00:08:20.500 --> 00:08:25.270 align:middle line:84% in the sand, the little stretch of park as an ornament. 00:08:25.270 --> 00:08:30.640 align:middle line:84% Along with strombus shells from the West Indies. 00:08:30.640 --> 00:08:33.400 align:middle line:84% And the gale makes its way through the dry pines 00:08:33.400 --> 00:08:36.520 align:middle line:84% beyond the Tigris over the sand and the cemetery, 00:08:36.520 --> 00:08:40.000 align:middle line:84% past the leaning stones, the names of the pilots, 00:08:40.000 --> 00:08:44.975 align:middle line:84% the dry sighing of large gates opening and large gates 00:08:44.975 --> 00:08:45.475 align:middle line:90% closing. 00:08:45.475 --> 00:08:51.070 align:middle line:90% 00:08:51.070 --> 00:08:58.570 align:middle line:84% Part three starts with something I must explain. 00:08:58.570 --> 00:09:06.640 align:middle line:84% It's a description of certain reliefs from the 12th century 00:09:06.640 --> 00:09:12.910 align:middle line:84% by an artist who was a mixture of viking style artists 00:09:12.910 --> 00:09:14.890 align:middle line:90% and early Christian style. 00:09:14.890 --> 00:09:16.570 align:middle line:84% His name was [? Higvalde, ?] and that's 00:09:16.570 --> 00:09:21.520 align:middle line:84% the only thing you know about him, that he had that name. 00:09:21.520 --> 00:09:25.090 align:middle line:84% And he was working in Gotland, which 00:09:25.090 --> 00:09:29.410 align:middle line:90% is an island in the Baltic. 00:09:29.410 --> 00:09:32.620 align:middle line:84% I'm describing some of his scenes. 00:09:32.620 --> 00:09:38.080 align:middle line:90% 00:09:38.080 --> 00:09:42.805 align:middle line:84% Robben Island is a prison island outside South Africa. 00:09:42.805 --> 00:09:46.995 align:middle line:90% 00:09:46.995 --> 00:09:47.495 align:middle line:90% Yeah. 00:09:47.495 --> 00:09:50.430 align:middle line:90% 00:09:50.430 --> 00:09:52.290 align:middle line:90% Three. 00:09:52.290 --> 00:09:54.810 align:middle line:84% In the half dark corner of the Gotland Church 00:09:54.810 --> 00:09:59.580 align:middle line:84% in the mildewed daylight stands a sandstone baptismal font, 00:09:59.580 --> 00:10:02.310 align:middle line:84% 12th century, the stone cutter's name 00:10:02.310 --> 00:10:05.160 align:middle line:84% still there shining like a row of teeth 00:10:05.160 --> 00:10:07.920 align:middle line:84% in the mass grave, [? Higvalde. ?] 00:10:07.920 --> 00:10:11.340 align:middle line:84% The name is still there and the scenes here. 00:10:11.340 --> 00:10:13.320 align:middle line:84% And on the sides of other vessels 00:10:13.320 --> 00:10:17.580 align:middle line:84% crowded with people, the figures on their way out of the stone. 00:10:17.580 --> 00:10:21.000 align:middle line:84% The eyes kernel of good and evil bursting there. 00:10:21.000 --> 00:10:26.850 align:middle line:84% Herald at the table, the roasted cock flying up and crowing. 00:10:26.850 --> 00:10:30.690 align:middle line:84% [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH],, the servant was executed. 00:10:30.690 --> 00:10:33.270 align:middle line:84% Close by, the child is born on the clumps 00:10:33.270 --> 00:10:36.780 align:middle line:84% of faces as worthy and helpless as young monkeys. 00:10:36.780 --> 00:10:40.890 align:middle line:84% And the fleeing steps of the pious drumming over the dragon 00:10:40.890 --> 00:10:44.520 align:middle line:90% scales of sour mouths. 00:10:44.520 --> 00:10:46.770 align:middle line:84% The scene stronger in memory than when 00:10:46.770 --> 00:10:48.360 align:middle line:90% you stand in front of them. 00:10:48.360 --> 00:10:53.130 align:middle line:84% Strongest when the fan spins like a slow rumbling carousel 00:10:53.130 --> 00:10:55.920 align:middle line:90% in the memory. 00:10:55.920 --> 00:11:04.530 align:middle line:84% Nowhere the leeside, everywhere risk, as it was, as it is. 00:11:04.530 --> 00:11:07.440 align:middle line:84% Only inside there is peace, in the water 00:11:07.440 --> 00:11:10.230 align:middle line:90% of the vessel that no one sees. 00:11:10.230 --> 00:11:15.060 align:middle line:84% But on the outer walls the struggle rages. 00:11:15.060 --> 00:11:18.900 align:middle line:84% And peace can come drop by drop, perhaps at night 00:11:18.900 --> 00:11:22.200 align:middle line:90% when we don't know anything. 00:11:22.200 --> 00:11:26.640 align:middle line:84% Whereas when we are taped to drip in a hospital ward, 00:11:26.640 --> 00:11:29.360 align:middle line:90% people, beasts, ornaments. 00:11:29.360 --> 00:11:31.920 align:middle line:90% 00:11:31.920 --> 00:11:36.480 align:middle line:84% There isn't any landscape ornaments. 00:11:36.480 --> 00:11:40.740 align:middle line:84% Mr. B, my traveling companion, amiable in exile, 00:11:40.740 --> 00:11:44.460 align:middle line:84% escaped from Robben Island says, I envy you. 00:11:44.460 --> 00:11:47.280 align:middle line:84% I don't feel anything for nature. 00:11:47.280 --> 00:11:51.270 align:middle line:84% But figures in landscape, that says something to me. 00:11:51.270 --> 00:11:54.020 align:middle line:90% 00:11:54.020 --> 00:11:56.240 align:middle line:90% Here are figures in landscape. 00:11:56.240 --> 00:11:59.270 align:middle line:84% A photo from 1865, the Steamer lies 00:11:59.270 --> 00:12:01.220 align:middle line:90% at the dock in the channel. 00:12:01.220 --> 00:12:05.540 align:middle line:84% Five figures, a lady in light green line, 00:12:05.540 --> 00:12:07.385 align:middle line:90% like a bell, like a flower. 00:12:07.385 --> 00:12:10.280 align:middle line:90% 00:12:10.280 --> 00:12:14.000 align:middle line:84% The men are like extras in folk drama. 00:12:14.000 --> 00:12:16.700 align:middle line:84% They are all good looking, indecisive, 00:12:16.700 --> 00:12:19.280 align:middle line:90% beginning to fade out. 00:12:19.280 --> 00:12:24.670 align:middle line:84% They step on shore for a moment, they fade out. 00:12:24.670 --> 00:12:26.900 align:middle line:90% The Steamer is an extinct model. 00:12:26.900 --> 00:12:33.160 align:middle line:84% The high fan, owning, narrow hull, is completely strange. 00:12:33.160 --> 00:12:35.260 align:middle line:90% A UFO that's landed. 00:12:35.260 --> 00:12:38.410 align:middle line:84% Everything else in the photo is shockingly real. 00:12:38.410 --> 00:12:42.550 align:middle line:84% The ripples on the water, the opposite beach, 00:12:42.550 --> 00:12:46.540 align:middle line:84% I can stroke the rough rocks with my hand. 00:12:46.540 --> 00:12:48.640 align:middle line:84% I can hear the sighing in the spruce. 00:12:48.640 --> 00:12:52.060 align:middle line:90% It's near, it's today. 00:12:52.060 --> 00:12:53.275 align:middle line:90% The waves are tropical. 00:12:53.275 --> 00:12:58.840 align:middle line:90% 00:12:58.840 --> 00:13:01.120 align:middle line:90% Now 100 years later. 00:13:01.120 --> 00:13:04.330 align:middle line:84% The waves come in from no man's water 00:13:04.330 --> 00:13:07.900 align:middle line:90% and break against the stones. 00:13:07.900 --> 00:13:09.490 align:middle line:90% I walk along the beach. 00:13:09.490 --> 00:13:12.640 align:middle line:84% It isn't like it used to be to walk along the beach. 00:13:12.640 --> 00:13:15.220 align:middle line:84% You have to swallow too much, keep too many conversations 00:13:15.220 --> 00:13:18.880 align:middle line:84% going at the same time, you have thin walls. 00:13:18.880 --> 00:13:20.830 align:middle line:84% Everything has gotten a new shadow 00:13:20.830 --> 00:13:23.200 align:middle line:90% behind its ordinary shadow. 00:13:23.200 --> 00:13:29.020 align:middle line:84% And you hear it dragging along even when it's completely dark. 00:13:29.020 --> 00:13:29.665 align:middle line:90% It's night. 00:13:29.665 --> 00:13:32.410 align:middle line:90% 00:13:32.410 --> 00:13:34.780 align:middle line:84% The strategic planetarium rotates. 00:13:34.780 --> 00:13:37.840 align:middle line:84% The lenses stare into the darkness. 00:13:37.840 --> 00:13:40.570 align:middle line:84% The night sky is full of numbers and they 00:13:40.570 --> 00:13:44.530 align:middle line:84% are fed into a blinking cupboard, a piece of furniture. 00:13:44.530 --> 00:13:46.660 align:middle line:84% Inside it, the energy of a grasshopper 00:13:46.660 --> 00:13:49.900 align:middle line:84% swarm that devours acres of Somalia in half an hour. 00:13:49.900 --> 00:13:52.990 align:middle line:90% 00:13:52.990 --> 00:13:54.850 align:middle line:84% I don't know if we are in the beginning 00:13:54.850 --> 00:13:57.820 align:middle line:90% or in the final stage. 00:13:57.820 --> 00:14:01.525 align:middle line:84% No conclusion can be made, no conclusion is possible. 00:14:01.525 --> 00:14:04.220 align:middle line:90% 00:14:04.220 --> 00:14:08.270 align:middle line:90% The conclusion is the mandrake. 00:14:08.270 --> 00:14:10.700 align:middle line:84% See the encyclopedia of superstitions. 00:14:10.700 --> 00:14:13.640 align:middle line:84% Mandrake, miracle working plant which 00:14:13.640 --> 00:14:16.490 align:middle line:84% gave such a dreadful shriek when it was thrown out of the Earth 00:14:16.490 --> 00:14:18.170 align:middle line:90% that the person fell dead. 00:14:18.170 --> 00:14:19.723 align:middle line:90% A dog had to do it. 00:14:19.723 --> 00:14:26.750 align:middle line:90% 00:14:26.750 --> 00:14:27.250 align:middle line:90% Yeah. 00:14:27.250 --> 00:14:29.730 align:middle line:90% Part 4. 00:14:29.730 --> 00:14:32.680 align:middle line:90% It's the more relaxed thing. 00:14:32.680 --> 00:14:34.930 align:middle line:84% The last word should be explained. 00:14:34.930 --> 00:14:38.020 align:middle line:84% Liepaja-- that's the city-- it's the same city 00:14:38.020 --> 00:14:43.160 align:middle line:84% as Libow in the first part of the poem. 00:14:43.160 --> 00:14:46.090 align:middle line:90% It's in Latvia and it was-- 00:14:46.090 --> 00:14:50.260 align:middle line:84% before the war it was a commercial port. 00:14:50.260 --> 00:14:52.960 align:middle line:84% We had much contact with it and now it's completely closed. 00:14:52.960 --> 00:15:01.450 align:middle line:84% Its military port belong to Soviet Union. 00:15:01.450 --> 00:15:02.860 align:middle line:90% Four. 00:15:02.860 --> 00:15:06.910 align:middle line:90% From the leeside closeups. 00:15:06.910 --> 00:15:08.470 align:middle line:90% Bladderwrack. 00:15:08.470 --> 00:15:11.000 align:middle line:84% The forests of bladderwrack shine in the clear water. 00:15:11.000 --> 00:15:11.680 align:middle line:90% They are young. 00:15:11.680 --> 00:15:13.780 align:middle line:84% You want to emigrate there, stretch out 00:15:13.780 --> 00:15:17.980 align:middle line:84% on your own reflection, and sink down to such and such a depth. 00:15:17.980 --> 00:15:22.120 align:middle line:84% The seaweed holding itself up with air bladders the way 00:15:22.120 --> 00:15:24.220 align:middle line:90% we hold ourselves up with ideas. 00:15:24.220 --> 00:15:27.450 align:middle line:90% 00:15:27.450 --> 00:15:31.830 align:middle line:84% Bullhead, the fish that's a toad that wanted to be a butterfly 00:15:31.830 --> 00:15:35.310 align:middle line:84% and made it a third of the way hiding himself in the seaweed 00:15:35.310 --> 00:15:37.680 align:middle line:90% but pulled up in the net. 00:15:37.680 --> 00:15:41.580 align:middle line:84% Hooked fast by his pathetic spikes and watched. 00:15:41.580 --> 00:15:44.550 align:middle line:84% When you untangle him from the mesh of the net, 00:15:44.550 --> 00:15:46.230 align:middle line:90% your hands shine with slime. 00:15:46.230 --> 00:15:49.300 align:middle line:90% 00:15:49.300 --> 00:15:51.430 align:middle line:90% The rocks. 00:15:51.430 --> 00:15:53.650 align:middle line:84% The small creatures hurry over the sand 00:15:53.650 --> 00:15:58.090 align:middle line:84% warm lichens, rushing like second hands. 00:15:58.090 --> 00:16:00.850 align:middle line:84% The pine casts a shadow, it wanders slowly 00:16:00.850 --> 00:16:02.740 align:middle line:90% like an hour hand. 00:16:02.740 --> 00:16:05.890 align:middle line:84% Inside me, time stands still, endless time. 00:16:05.890 --> 00:16:08.500 align:middle line:84% The time it takes to forget all languages 00:16:08.500 --> 00:16:10.015 align:middle line:90% and invent perpetual motion. 00:16:10.015 --> 00:16:12.850 align:middle line:90% 00:16:12.850 --> 00:16:15.625 align:middle line:84% On the leeside you can hear the grass growing, 00:16:15.625 --> 00:16:18.340 align:middle line:84% the faint drumming coming from underneath, 00:16:18.340 --> 00:16:21.910 align:middle line:84% a faint roar of millions of small gas flames. 00:16:21.910 --> 00:16:26.110 align:middle line:90% So it is to hear the grass grow. 00:16:26.110 --> 00:16:29.860 align:middle line:84% And now, the stretch of open water 00:16:29.860 --> 00:16:33.340 align:middle line:84% with outdoors, the open boundaries that 00:16:33.340 --> 00:16:36.250 align:middle line:84% grow broader and broader the further you stretch out. 00:16:36.250 --> 00:16:39.580 align:middle line:90% 00:16:39.580 --> 00:16:44.950 align:middle line:84% There are days when the Baltic is a calm limitless roof. 00:16:44.950 --> 00:16:49.060 align:middle line:84% Then dream innocently of someone crawling out on the roof 00:16:49.060 --> 00:16:55.960 align:middle line:84% to try to put the hell yards in order, trying to hoist the rag. 00:16:55.960 --> 00:16:57.940 align:middle line:84% The flag that's afraid by the wind, 00:16:57.940 --> 00:17:00.670 align:middle line:84% and smoked by the farmers, and bleached by the sun that it 00:17:00.670 --> 00:17:01.840 align:middle line:90% could be anybody's. 00:17:01.840 --> 00:17:04.630 align:middle line:90% 00:17:04.630 --> 00:17:06.325 align:middle line:90% But it's a long way to reappear. 00:17:06.325 --> 00:17:14.800 align:middle line:90% 00:17:14.800 --> 00:17:15.384 align:middle line:90% Part 5. 00:17:15.384 --> 00:17:20.240 align:middle line:90% 00:17:20.240 --> 00:17:23.240 align:middle line:84% My grandmother's story before it's forgotten. 00:17:23.240 --> 00:17:28.160 align:middle line:84% Her parents dying young, the father first. 00:17:28.160 --> 00:17:31.640 align:middle line:84% When the widow realizes the disease will take her too, 00:17:31.640 --> 00:17:34.910 align:middle line:84% she walks from house to house, sails from island 00:17:34.910 --> 00:17:37.640 align:middle line:90% to island with her daughter. 00:17:37.640 --> 00:17:38.855 align:middle line:90% Who can take care of Maria? 00:17:38.855 --> 00:17:41.420 align:middle line:90% 00:17:41.420 --> 00:17:46.280 align:middle line:84% A strange house on the other side of the bay takes her in. 00:17:46.280 --> 00:17:48.330 align:middle line:90% They could afford to do it. 00:17:48.330 --> 00:17:53.000 align:middle line:84% But the ones that could afford weren't the good ones. 00:17:53.000 --> 00:17:59.840 align:middle line:84% By this mass cracks, Maria's childhood ends soon. 00:17:59.840 --> 00:18:04.250 align:middle line:84% She's an unpaid servant in perpetual cold. 00:18:04.250 --> 00:18:10.430 align:middle line:84% Year after year, perpetually seasick behind the long hours, 00:18:10.430 --> 00:18:13.550 align:middle line:84% the solemn terror at the table, the expressions, 00:18:13.550 --> 00:18:15.690 align:middle line:84% the pigskin crunching in her mouth, 00:18:15.690 --> 00:18:18.200 align:middle line:90% be grateful, be grateful. 00:18:18.200 --> 00:18:20.240 align:middle line:90% She never looked back. 00:18:20.240 --> 00:18:24.380 align:middle line:84% But because of this, she could see the new 00:18:24.380 --> 00:18:29.900 align:middle line:84% and seize it, break out of the bonds. 00:18:29.900 --> 00:18:30.830 align:middle line:90% I remember her. 00:18:30.830 --> 00:18:33.260 align:middle line:90% I used to snuggle against her. 00:18:33.260 --> 00:18:37.430 align:middle line:84% And at the moment she died, the moment she passed over, 00:18:37.430 --> 00:18:42.230 align:middle line:84% she sent out a thought so that I, a five-year-old, 00:18:42.230 --> 00:18:44.750 align:middle line:84% understood what had happened half an hour 00:18:44.750 --> 00:18:47.840 align:middle line:90% before they called. 00:18:47.840 --> 00:18:49.850 align:middle line:90% I remember her. 00:18:49.850 --> 00:18:55.125 align:middle line:84% But in the next brown photo, someone I don't know. 00:18:55.125 --> 00:18:59.040 align:middle line:84% By the clothes from the middle of the last century, 00:18:59.040 --> 00:19:01.970 align:middle line:90% a man about 30. 00:19:01.970 --> 00:19:04.910 align:middle line:84% The powerful eyebrows, the face that 00:19:04.910 --> 00:19:10.070 align:middle line:84% looks me right in the eye whispering, here I am. 00:19:10.070 --> 00:19:14.960 align:middle line:84% But who I am is something that no one remembers anymore. 00:19:14.960 --> 00:19:15.620 align:middle line:90% No one. 00:19:15.620 --> 00:19:18.360 align:middle line:90% 00:19:18.360 --> 00:19:21.690 align:middle line:90% TB, isolation. 00:19:21.690 --> 00:19:25.950 align:middle line:84% Once he stopped on the stony grass teeming slope coming up 00:19:25.950 --> 00:19:31.125 align:middle line:84% from the sea and felt the black blindfold in front of his eyes. 00:19:31.125 --> 00:19:33.710 align:middle line:90% 00:19:33.710 --> 00:19:38.720 align:middle line:84% Here, behind the thick brush, is the island's oldest house. 00:19:38.720 --> 00:19:42.230 align:middle line:84% The low, not trim, 200-year-old fisherman's 00:19:42.230 --> 00:19:46.460 align:middle line:84% hut with coarse gray heavy beams. 00:19:46.460 --> 00:19:50.030 align:middle line:84% And the modern brass padlock has clicked together on all of it, 00:19:50.030 --> 00:19:53.390 align:middle line:84% shining like the ring in the nose of an old bull that 00:19:53.390 --> 00:19:55.460 align:middle line:90% refuses to get up. 00:19:55.460 --> 00:19:57.660 align:middle line:90% So much crouching wood. 00:19:57.660 --> 00:20:00.680 align:middle line:84% And on the roof, the ancient tiles 00:20:00.680 --> 00:20:04.710 align:middle line:84% that collapsed across and on top of each other. 00:20:04.710 --> 00:20:07.370 align:middle line:84% The original pattern erased by the Earth's rotation 00:20:07.370 --> 00:20:09.020 align:middle line:90% through the years. 00:20:09.020 --> 00:20:10.940 align:middle line:90% It reminds me of something. 00:20:10.940 --> 00:20:11.810 align:middle line:90% I was there. 00:20:11.810 --> 00:20:16.550 align:middle line:84% Wait, it is the old Jewish cemetery in Prague. 00:20:16.550 --> 00:20:20.990 align:middle line:84% Where the dead live closer together than they did in life, 00:20:20.990 --> 00:20:25.760 align:middle line:84% the stones jammed in, jammed in, so much encircled love. 00:20:25.760 --> 00:20:30.800 align:middle line:84% The ties with the Lycan's letters in an unknown language. 00:20:30.800 --> 00:20:34.130 align:middle line:84% All the stones in the archipelago people's ghetto 00:20:34.130 --> 00:20:35.210 align:middle line:90% cemetery. 00:20:35.210 --> 00:20:39.590 align:middle line:84% The stones erected and fallen down. 00:20:39.590 --> 00:20:45.770 align:middle line:84% The ramshackle hut shines with a light of all the people borne 00:20:45.770 --> 00:20:53.750 align:middle line:84% up by a certain wave, a certain wind, out here to their fates. 00:20:53.750 --> 00:20:58.680 align:middle line:90% 00:20:58.680 --> 00:20:59.180 align:middle line:90% Yeah. 00:20:59.180 --> 00:21:03.190 align:middle line:90% That was the end of that so far.