WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.660 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.660 --> 00:00:04.050 align:middle line:84% Last night, I met with a class here. 00:00:04.050 --> 00:00:07.080 align:middle line:84% And that's the occasion for the group 00:00:07.080 --> 00:00:10.590 align:middle line:84% of poems I would like to bring initiated with this. 00:00:10.590 --> 00:00:14.310 align:middle line:84% When we met around a table, for most of us, 00:00:14.310 --> 00:00:16.350 align:middle line:90% it was our first encounter. 00:00:16.350 --> 00:00:18.150 align:middle line:90% I knew some people there. 00:00:18.150 --> 00:00:22.680 align:middle line:84% And we tried to find our way toward something 00:00:22.680 --> 00:00:24.210 align:middle line:90% significant for us all. 00:00:24.210 --> 00:00:29.820 align:middle line:84% I felt myself sustained by the gathering it was. 00:00:29.820 --> 00:00:31.530 align:middle line:90% And several things came up. 00:00:31.530 --> 00:00:34.200 align:middle line:84% I just want to say quick succession some of the things. 00:00:34.200 --> 00:00:39.510 align:middle line:90% 00:00:39.510 --> 00:00:42.120 align:middle line:90% These were issues in the class. 00:00:42.120 --> 00:00:45.120 align:middle line:84% One of the issues was about American poetry now. 00:00:45.120 --> 00:00:47.070 align:middle line:84% I had this feeling there's a kind of tradition 00:00:47.070 --> 00:00:51.390 align:middle line:84% of human centered, me centered poetry. 00:00:51.390 --> 00:00:55.650 align:middle line:90% And then one thing that came up. 00:00:55.650 --> 00:00:57.810 align:middle line:84% A lot of these things were moves that I made. 00:00:57.810 --> 00:00:59.700 align:middle line:84% But some of them were back and forth. 00:00:59.700 --> 00:01:01.560 align:middle line:90% And then I summarize it. 00:01:01.560 --> 00:01:03.600 align:middle line:84% A poem is your best remarks given 00:01:03.600 --> 00:01:07.320 align:middle line:84% an appearance of coherence was one. 00:01:07.320 --> 00:01:11.220 align:middle line:84% And writing poetry is a now thing being contemporary 00:01:11.220 --> 00:01:12.730 align:middle line:90% is not enough. 00:01:12.730 --> 00:01:14.190 align:middle line:90% It's too historical. 00:01:14.190 --> 00:01:16.680 align:middle line:84% It's already historical to be contemporary. 00:01:16.680 --> 00:01:20.070 align:middle line:90% But the arts are right now. 00:01:20.070 --> 00:01:23.430 align:middle line:84% Contemporaries a long time ago in the arts. 00:01:23.430 --> 00:01:26.640 align:middle line:84% The main events in a stanza may be something as trivial 00:01:26.640 --> 00:01:27.960 align:middle line:90% as a change of tense. 00:01:27.960 --> 00:01:32.670 align:middle line:84% I didn't know whether I prevailed with this idea. 00:01:32.670 --> 00:01:35.760 align:middle line:84% Things should happen in the language. 00:01:35.760 --> 00:01:37.410 align:middle line:84% I'm not sure that this was actually 00:01:37.410 --> 00:01:40.500 align:middle line:84% voiced that's something I think I learned from reading 00:01:40.500 --> 00:01:43.680 align:middle line:90% carefully, Don Quixote. 00:01:43.680 --> 00:01:46.920 align:middle line:84% And then this came to me afterward. 00:01:46.920 --> 00:01:51.510 align:middle line:84% You should leave things for the reader or hearer to do. 00:01:51.510 --> 00:01:54.000 align:middle line:84% Well, now, one of the things that came up 00:01:54.000 --> 00:01:56.700 align:middle line:84% was how often do you write and so on. 00:01:56.700 --> 00:01:59.940 align:middle line:84% So I decided I should write while I'm here. 00:01:59.940 --> 00:02:02.160 align:middle line:90% I want to hazard this. 00:02:02.160 --> 00:02:06.900 align:middle line:84% It's two messages from the firies and the Snuffy. 00:02:06.900 --> 00:02:08.560 align:middle line:90% That's the building over there. 00:02:08.560 --> 00:02:10.380 align:middle line:84% And it wasn't until after I had read this. 00:02:10.380 --> 00:02:12.570 align:middle line:84% And I went out and looked and says the fairies 00:02:12.570 --> 00:02:15.180 align:middle line:84% and the snuffy is on the poetry house 00:02:15.180 --> 00:02:20.130 align:middle line:84% that I realized that I guess I'm a snuffy. 00:02:20.130 --> 00:02:21.090 align:middle line:90% I guess that's what-- 00:02:21.090 --> 00:02:24.030 align:middle line:84% I guess that means several kinds of people. 00:02:24.030 --> 00:02:31.980 align:middle line:84% Anyway, this is from one of the snuffy two little verses 00:02:31.980 --> 00:02:32.910 align:middle line:90% written this morning. 00:02:32.910 --> 00:02:34.710 align:middle line:90% They didn't say anything. 00:02:34.710 --> 00:02:38.340 align:middle line:84% But those plants from Mexico pressed against the window 00:02:38.340 --> 00:02:40.590 align:middle line:90% on all night. 00:02:40.590 --> 00:02:41.880 align:middle line:90% I didn't know it. 00:02:41.880 --> 00:02:43.800 align:middle line:84% But in the morning, there they were 00:02:43.800 --> 00:02:48.270 align:middle line:84% sprawled on the screen and some reaching for the eaves. 00:02:48.270 --> 00:02:53.040 align:middle line:84% I went out and poured coffee grounds at their feet. 00:02:53.040 --> 00:02:57.690 align:middle line:84% Be here again tomorrow I thought even if I forget you, 00:02:57.690 --> 00:03:00.660 align:middle line:84% even if the window never opens, and curtains 00:03:00.660 --> 00:03:02.580 align:middle line:90% are drawn at night. 00:03:02.580 --> 00:03:06.260 align:middle line:84% Across miles of the desert, be here.