So I'm going to read from my most recent book, Body Clock.
Is that annoying behind you, is it OK?
And I shall say about this book that--
what shall I say--
it was begun while I was pregnant with my daughter.
And I was thinking a lot about the relationship between
the growth of a-- and decay--
but first, the growth of a body in time
and how seconds and minutes are related
to the corporalization of matter, the matter taking form.
And the book alternates between what I think
of as home and world section.
So the home sections are the baby, the body.
And the world sections are sort of public language
or public information.
I'm mostly going to read from home sections.
I'm not going to necessarily tell you where I'm doing what.
But if you hear-- you probably be
able to hear when there's a world section coming in,
a world poem.
And that's it.
I'll read poems now.
"Heart was found asymmetrically locked in the chest.
You can't make it turn round, not around.
Pierce the porous skin of a minute, see time bleed out."
"Midnight noon is at the crown, 12:15 is at the lips."
"Body Clock."
"The breastbone brushes three and the wishbone splits."