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>> Thank you so much, BJ, 
for your introduction.

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It was amazing how you mixed both -- Yeah,
amazing how you mixed the work of both of us,

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because we never think about the
connections in our work, so that's great.

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But mainly, I would like to thank the Poetry
Center for inviting me, or for inviting us,

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to such an amazing place where from
the first moment I felt so comfortable

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and welcome and peaceful, mainly.

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Because coming from New York,
you come like completely hectic.

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So you come here and it's such a
relaxing and inspiring living place,

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and thank you so much for having me here.

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I don't know if you want to say --

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>> Well, I drove here from El Paso,
so I was already pretty relaxed

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by the time -- Just got more relaxed.

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But it's been wonderful being here.

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It really has been.

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And also to reconnect with Lila here in
the southwest, and to talk a little bit

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of our translations is always a pleasure.

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So thank you for bringing us together.

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>> Yes. Ok.

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>> Can you hear me?

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Oh, did I not turn it?

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Did -- No one heard what I said right?

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>> I think you have to put it here.

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>> Hold on.

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Can you hear me now?

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Oh, it's this?

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Can you hear -- No, you know,
it wasn't turned on actually.

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>> You are so relaxed.

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>> I said something really brilliant, you just -

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>> We could hear you.

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>> Sorry about that.

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>> Ok. So we'll be reading from Mauve
Sea-Orchids, Malvas orquídeas del mar.

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Cuando la flor se abre al
pensamiento inquieto de las cosas,

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un lenguaje celular sale de las porciones más
recónditas en una concatenación de sonidos

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materializados en procesos químicos
que no pertenecen, en esencia,

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al cerebro si no la conexión entre
las terminaciones y los tejidos.

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La emoción, como un cable que se
encabrita en las noches de tormenta,

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emite chisporroteos peligrosos, por ser
lo inanimado, de repente anguila luminosa,

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dragón fosforescente en la
noche azulada y látigo de luz.

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En ese proceso de sinapsis, en donde
el destello renueva las señales,

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los sonidos de lo inorgánico
cumplen su función renovadora.

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Agapantos, rabdomante, planetario,
molecular, reticulado, cavernoso.

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Cadenas de sonidos que estampan el milagro
de transformar una sustancia en otra.

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>> I'm going to read Mónica de
la Torre's translations first

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and later we'll come to mine, so
this is Monica de la Torre's.

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When the flower opens its thoughts
to the restlessness of things,

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a cellular language bursts from the most distant
portions of a chain of sounds materialized

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in chemical processes that, in essence, do
not involve the brain but the connection

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between the ends and the tissues.

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Emotion, like a cable charged in an
evening storm, emits dangerous sparks

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as the inanimate suddenly becomes electric eel,
phosphorescent dragon in the cerulean night,

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whip of light in that synaptic
process in which the spark renovates.

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The signals the sounds of the inorganic
fulfill their reinvigorating function.

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Honeysuckle, water diviner, planetary,
molecular, entwined, [? cavernous ?].

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Chains of sounds, imprinting the miracle of
the conversion of one substance into another.