WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.610 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.610 --> 00:00:06.370 align:middle line:90% Storm, storm. 00:00:06.370 --> 00:00:10.390 align:middle line:84% From the waist down, at least nothing unfamiliar. 00:00:10.390 --> 00:00:14.770 align:middle line:84% Cypress trees, the catalpa, its seed pods 00:00:14.770 --> 00:00:19.750 align:middle line:84% hanging like shadow icicles, and the light around them, 00:00:19.750 --> 00:00:23.540 align:middle line:84% and the bodies that enter the light and leave it. 00:00:23.540 --> 00:00:26.830 align:middle line:84% Your own among them, but as when the body seems 00:00:26.830 --> 00:00:30.700 align:middle line:84% most to want impossibly to step free of itself-- 00:00:30.700 --> 00:00:38.610 align:middle line:84% oblivion of wish, of wishing about sanctuary, 00:00:38.610 --> 00:00:43.080 align:middle line:84% how over time it makes the birds come closer, how that's 00:00:43.080 --> 00:00:46.860 align:middle line:90% different from trust, isn't it? 00:00:46.860 --> 00:00:49.230 align:middle line:84% "What the fuck do you think you're looking at?" 00:00:49.230 --> 00:00:51.360 align:middle line:90% He says softly. 00:00:51.360 --> 00:00:53.850 align:middle line:90% What a thing to say. 00:00:53.850 --> 00:00:57.210 align:middle line:84% The mind protecting itself by shutting down 00:00:57.210 --> 00:01:01.980 align:middle line:84% an intimacy that most likely won't be returned. 00:01:01.980 --> 00:01:06.990 align:middle line:84% Won't expect it, as if that were the mind's chief purpose, 00:01:06.990 --> 00:01:09.710 align:middle line:84% to resist a fall, though, falling 00:01:09.710 --> 00:01:12.270 align:middle line:90% is what the body does best. 00:01:12.270 --> 00:01:16.560 align:middle line:84% It's quick to rise for moving toward you with all 00:01:16.560 --> 00:01:20.550 align:middle line:84% the ceremony of many wings at once out spread. 00:01:20.550 --> 00:01:23.400 align:middle line:90% A holiday descending. 00:01:23.400 --> 00:01:29.220 align:middle line:84% The dark adjusts itself, settles its wings inside you. 00:01:29.220 --> 00:01:35.040 align:middle line:84% The shadows that strut the dark open and fold like hope, 00:01:35.040 --> 00:01:38.430 align:middle line:84% a paper fan, violence in its pitch, 00:01:38.430 --> 00:01:43.890 align:middle line:84% and fall like waves above them, the usual sea birds, 00:01:43.890 --> 00:01:47.130 align:middle line:84% the presumable indifference to chance. 00:01:47.130 --> 00:01:50.910 align:middle line:90% Its blond convergences. 00:01:50.910 --> 00:01:54.300 align:middle line:84% As when telling cruelty apart from chivalry 00:01:54.300 --> 00:01:59.790 align:middle line:84% can come to seem irrelevant or not anymore the main point. 00:01:59.790 --> 00:02:03.690 align:middle line:84% He touches himself here and here. 00:02:03.690 --> 00:02:05.370 align:middle line:90% Directive. 00:02:05.370 --> 00:02:07.770 align:middle line:90% Turns its face away. 00:02:07.770 --> 00:02:10.020 align:middle line:90% It can look like ransom. 00:02:10.020 --> 00:02:13.590 align:middle line:84% Now, it looks like privilege, now recklessness, now 00:02:13.590 --> 00:02:17.730 align:middle line:84% triumph, gravel and blood, humiliation, lovely. 00:02:17.730 --> 00:02:19.080 align:middle line:90% Now, strict refrain. 00:02:19.080 --> 00:02:22.400 align:middle line:90% He taketh my hand in his. 00:02:22.400 --> 00:02:24.000 align:middle line:90%