WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.960 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.960 --> 00:00:05.130 align:middle line:84% So before we begin with Michael introducing Renee, 00:00:05.130 --> 00:00:08.730 align:middle line:84% I wanted to dedicate this reading also 00:00:08.730 --> 00:00:11.520 align:middle line:90% to the poet, Stacy Doris. 00:00:11.520 --> 00:00:13.470 align:middle line:84% Dear friend, wonderful poet, whose 00:00:13.470 --> 00:00:17.670 align:middle line:84% work is included in this collection who passed 00:00:17.670 --> 00:00:20.220 align:middle line:90% very recently on January 31. 00:00:20.220 --> 00:00:24.090 align:middle line:84% So we'll just start with a minute, and then we'll proceed. 00:00:24.090 --> 00:00:40.070 align:middle line:90% 00:00:40.070 --> 00:00:47.600 align:middle line:84% "Love letter lament Dear embers, I warble then melt, rousing. 00:00:47.600 --> 00:00:49.940 align:middle line:90% This me infinitely, thus. 00:00:49.940 --> 00:00:52.620 align:middle line:84% Your dark breath courses kisses, hands 00:00:52.620 --> 00:00:57.650 align:middle line:84% spooning between, I cut open, unravel shower. 00:00:57.650 --> 00:01:01.370 align:middle line:84% The honeysuckle marking a long way down, we sink. 00:01:01.370 --> 00:01:04.550 align:middle line:84% First endless drifts, the path leading only deep, 00:01:04.550 --> 00:01:06.770 align:middle line:90% only nowhere, dark ferns. 00:01:06.770 --> 00:01:08.660 align:middle line:90% This thick smell on the wind. 00:01:08.660 --> 00:01:10.820 align:middle line:90% Windowless, a jumble. 00:01:10.820 --> 00:01:13.070 align:middle line:90% Thrust me. 00:01:13.070 --> 00:01:18.920 align:middle line:84% Convulsing, this never awake or asleep, I on I. 00:01:18.920 --> 00:01:22.850 align:middle line:84% Burrow softer then, then bind me blind. 00:01:22.850 --> 00:01:26.300 align:middle line:84% Under the wall of thorns, clipped violets. 00:01:26.300 --> 00:01:28.580 align:middle line:90% When your hand thus, I swoon. 00:01:28.580 --> 00:01:31.490 align:middle line:84% Loosening tangles in me, oh where? 00:01:31.490 --> 00:01:35.210 align:middle line:84% In a cave, sunless, open quick to plunder this. 00:01:35.210 --> 00:01:37.670 align:middle line:90% Now pebbles could swallow me. 00:01:37.670 --> 00:01:40.790 align:middle line:90% I am thus wrenched and bundled. 00:01:40.790 --> 00:01:42.770 align:middle line:90% If honey, this suckles. 00:01:42.770 --> 00:01:44.870 align:middle line:90% If hammered, this spins me. 00:01:44.870 --> 00:01:50.120 align:middle line:84% I clip deep juices, thin white bodies, hidden stems. 00:01:50.120 --> 00:01:52.640 align:middle line:90% Thus down, in a burn of sun. 00:01:52.640 --> 00:01:55.100 align:middle line:90% Thus waists, thin but stronger. 00:01:55.100 --> 00:01:57.920 align:middle line:84% When sheltered so seared, hidden stems 00:01:57.920 --> 00:02:00.860 align:middle line:84% with moss skirts darting the quiet of an afternoon. 00:02:00.860 --> 00:02:03.590 align:middle line:90% Only eternal. 00:02:03.590 --> 00:02:08.000 align:middle line:84% What hammers this shred so I'm adrift yet fastened. 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:10.400 align:middle line:84% What crawled in streams to this moist 00:02:10.400 --> 00:02:13.700 align:middle line:84% as nesting, what crouches on this. 00:02:13.700 --> 00:02:17.150 align:middle line:90% This coos, oh, adore, oh, more. 00:02:17.150 --> 00:02:20.120 align:middle line:90% Trust it to trickle in weight. 00:02:20.120 --> 00:02:21.680 align:middle line:90% Thus. 00:02:21.680 --> 00:02:24.380 align:middle line:90% Are you my now? 00:02:24.380 --> 00:02:27.080 align:middle line:90% Geliebter 00:02:27.080 --> 00:02:28.960 align:middle line:90% Thank you. 00:02:28.960 --> 00:02:30.000 align:middle line:90%