WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.660 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.660 --> 00:00:03.100 align:middle line:90% Thank you so much. 00:00:03.100 --> 00:00:05.070 align:middle line:84% Thank you so much, Poetry Center. 00:00:05.070 --> 00:00:06.630 align:middle line:90% Thank you so much, Tucson. 00:00:06.630 --> 00:00:08.340 align:middle line:90% So good to be back. 00:00:08.340 --> 00:00:13.380 align:middle line:84% My heart is here, right here in the Poetry Center. 00:00:13.380 --> 00:00:18.030 align:middle line:84% I'm going to start by reading a poem by Chase Twitchell's book 00:00:18.030 --> 00:00:20.550 align:middle line:84% The Snow Watcher-- by Chase Twitchell 00:00:20.550 --> 00:00:22.320 align:middle line:90% from her book The Snow Watcher. 00:00:22.320 --> 00:00:25.570 align:middle line:90% It's by Chase Twitchell's book. 00:00:25.570 --> 00:00:28.050 align:middle line:84% It's called "The Year I Got Rid of Everything." 00:00:28.050 --> 00:00:30.980 align:middle line:90% 00:00:30.980 --> 00:00:33.350 align:middle line:84% The year I got rid of everything, 00:00:33.350 --> 00:00:39.170 align:middle line:84% a huge invisible magnet dragged me up into its powers. 00:00:39.170 --> 00:00:41.720 align:middle line:84% It lifted me high above the beautiful wool 00:00:41.720 --> 00:00:44.900 align:middle line:90% carpets and the books. 00:00:44.900 --> 00:00:49.400 align:middle line:84% I put on a dress made of bones and danced alone 00:00:49.400 --> 00:00:51.850 align:middle line:90% in the great emptiness. 00:00:51.850 --> 00:00:54.000 align:middle line:90%