And then I'll end up with a few poems from Come And See.
And these-- the title of Come And See is from a movie
by Elem Klimov a Russian film maker
who was in the 60s at the same time as Tarkovsky,
but he was not well known.
And I happened on his movie before I went to St Petersburg
and it made a deep impression.
It's also from the apocalypse where Christ calls out
come and see, wanting the world to see what terrible things
we've done to it.
And it starts--
I start this with a poem called--
of little set of poems called "This Eye" as in eye
and it's a kind of channeling of a grandmother.
Well, I am a grandmother.
But she's strange to me, I don't know who she is.
"I see a child between a star and a boat.
It's a silhouette, and there is the child again,
now attached to the boat, all black.
Look at the weather, the futile wipers beating.
I see the child on dry land, now with his granny.
Like the boy in a story, he sees fire in wood and words
in smoke.
And he's good, too good to be far from anyone old."