WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.470 align:middle line:90% 00:00:02.470 --> 00:00:02.970 align:middle line:90% Let's see. 00:00:02.970 --> 00:00:06.360 align:middle line:84% This one is called, "The Agnostic 00:00:06.360 --> 00:00:09.780 align:middle line:90% Speaks to Her Horse's Hoof." 00:00:09.780 --> 00:00:12.150 align:middle line:84% And the word frog in the first line 00:00:12.150 --> 00:00:17.220 align:middle line:84% refers to the under portion of the hoof of a horse. 00:00:17.220 --> 00:00:26.580 align:middle line:84% It's the center, soft part where there is still some feeling. 00:00:26.580 --> 00:00:29.610 align:middle line:84% "The Agnostic Speaks to Her Horse's Hoof." 00:00:29.610 --> 00:00:32.729 align:middle line:90% Come, frog, reveal yourself. 00:00:32.729 --> 00:00:37.770 align:middle line:84% Surface out of the poultice, the muck and manure pack. 00:00:37.770 --> 00:00:41.490 align:middle line:84% Make your miraculous V to stand up. 00:00:41.490 --> 00:00:46.830 align:middle line:84% Show me as well, the tickle place, that cleft between. 00:00:46.830 --> 00:00:50.940 align:middle line:84% The good book says a man's life is as grass the wind 00:00:50.940 --> 00:00:54.030 align:middle line:90% passes over and is gone. 00:00:54.030 --> 00:00:57.090 align:middle line:84% According to the National Geographic, 00:00:57.090 --> 00:01:03.460 align:middle line:84% the oceans will lie down, dead as cesspools, in 60 years. 00:01:03.460 --> 00:01:06.540 align:middle line:90% Let us ripen in our own way. 00:01:06.540 --> 00:01:10.380 align:middle line:84% I, with my back to the trunk of a butternut 00:01:10.380 --> 00:01:13.560 align:middle line:84% that has caught the fatal red canker. 00:01:13.560 --> 00:01:19.200 align:middle line:84% And on my knee, this skillet of your old foot. 00:01:19.200 --> 00:01:22.050 align:middle line:84% The hoof pick is God's instrument, 00:01:22.050 --> 00:01:24.960 align:middle line:90% as much as I know of Him. 00:01:24.960 --> 00:01:31.350 align:middle line:84% In my hands, let it raise your moon, Amanda, your nerve bone. 00:01:31.350 --> 00:01:35.970 align:middle line:84% Let us come to the apocalypse, complete without splinter 00:01:35.970 --> 00:01:37.620 align:middle line:90% or stone. 00:01:37.620 --> 00:01:42.789 align:middle line:84% Let us ride out on four iron feet. 00:01:42.789 --> 00:01:43.289 align:middle line:90%