WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.517 align:middle line:90% 00:00:02.517 --> 00:00:03.100 align:middle line:90% "A Droplight." 00:00:03.100 --> 00:00:05.980 align:middle line:90% 00:00:05.980 --> 00:00:10.450 align:middle line:84% "It's coffee grounds in the coffee, somebody unfilling 00:00:10.450 --> 00:00:13.030 align:middle line:90% of sleep and nerves. 00:00:13.030 --> 00:00:17.560 align:middle line:84% I like your pajamas and the way you go into the water with them 00:00:17.560 --> 00:00:19.780 align:middle line:90% on and on out. 00:00:19.780 --> 00:00:23.950 align:middle line:84% Ship steam is cold, the berries and the pie on the sill 00:00:23.950 --> 00:00:28.000 align:middle line:84% are hot, and I can't keep apologizing without knowing 00:00:28.000 --> 00:00:30.370 align:middle line:90% what exactly for. 00:00:30.370 --> 00:00:34.780 align:middle line:84% Hugged under my ribs, ticking as a cursed hoof. 00:00:34.780 --> 00:00:37.450 align:middle line:84% Ocean redeeming its birds night long. 00:00:37.450 --> 00:00:42.130 align:middle line:84% The sluggish crosshatched dusk, sea roiling, 00:00:42.130 --> 00:00:43.780 align:middle line:90% prow coppering dusk. 00:00:43.780 --> 00:00:48.130 align:middle line:84% Ice foiling and under grassy dusk, 00:00:48.130 --> 00:00:51.850 align:middle line:84% pissing off the bow into the salty lake 00:00:51.850 --> 00:00:55.720 align:middle line:84% foam from a wooden pallet with mice in the engine and maggots 00:00:55.720 --> 00:00:56.770 align:middle line:90% at the cornmeal. 00:00:56.770 --> 00:00:59.950 align:middle line:84% Wanting the shoals to phosphoresce so bad, 00:00:59.950 --> 00:01:02.860 align:middle line:90% my spine turns to rope. 00:01:02.860 --> 00:01:05.800 align:middle line:84% Memory does its little valve work. 00:01:05.800 --> 00:01:07.840 align:middle line:84% Pick up truck from the thorn brake, 00:01:07.840 --> 00:01:10.510 align:middle line:90% Hidden Ivy, corpulent reeds. 00:01:10.510 --> 00:01:14.560 align:middle line:84% A message dropped at the Saints beer saying, 00:01:14.560 --> 00:01:19.000 align:middle line:84% 'We're not sorry it had to be exacted this way.' 00:01:19.000 --> 00:01:22.420 align:middle line:84% From aluminum sky into mere photographs, 00:01:22.420 --> 00:01:25.090 align:middle line:84% where one's just dragged off out of their house, and then 00:01:25.090 --> 00:01:29.560 align:middle line:84% this tiny town gets its quiet going again. 00:01:29.560 --> 00:01:34.510 align:middle line:84% First, dust scritch before a diamond needle tricks 00:01:34.510 --> 00:01:36.130 align:middle line:90% into the groove. 00:01:36.130 --> 00:01:38.740 align:middle line:90% Goodbye pigeons in the loop. 00:01:38.740 --> 00:01:43.240 align:middle line:84% What you can't hear, that's what's watching you. 00:01:43.240 --> 00:01:46.690 align:middle line:84% It's a bad history full of a long lesson, 00:01:46.690 --> 00:01:50.080 align:middle line:84% so you bring it aboard no matter your former colony 00:01:50.080 --> 00:01:52.600 align:middle line:90% fables, your destinations. 00:01:52.600 --> 00:01:56.200 align:middle line:84% Trade us out under the freezing viaducts, 00:01:56.200 --> 00:02:00.760 align:middle line:84% ambulances drifting around like gurneys, dogs in the street, 00:02:00.760 --> 00:02:04.720 align:middle line:84% and one ghost just standing there like a stork, 00:02:04.720 --> 00:02:07.030 align:middle line:90% won't flick down her cigarette. 00:02:07.030 --> 00:02:10.389 align:middle line:84% Twilight, your coiled up moon came in 00:02:10.389 --> 00:02:14.260 align:middle line:84% with the mail condensation on the white windows, thunder 00:02:14.260 --> 00:02:16.900 align:middle line:90% in clipping cold strings. 00:02:16.900 --> 00:02:21.400 align:middle line:84% I'm sorry, I want a sloe plum, and an armada 00:02:21.400 --> 00:02:26.050 align:middle line:84% to march invisibly without clematis, or sprawl, 00:02:26.050 --> 00:02:28.000 align:middle line:90% or a stone bucket. 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:32.110 align:middle line:90% A little bucket for foxed milk. 00:02:32.110 --> 00:02:35.440 align:middle line:90% Here, it says, 'Come here'. 00:02:35.440 --> 00:02:38.320 align:middle line:84% A radial drop light lowered from clouds, 00:02:38.320 --> 00:02:40.900 align:middle line:84% its silvery skin gets its light on us. 00:02:40.900 --> 00:02:43.930 align:middle line:84% So we said to the wind, we said, 'Derision 00:02:43.930 --> 00:02:48.580 align:middle line:84% spilled a squished current into what misremembers us 00:02:48.580 --> 00:02:53.440 align:middle line:84% as superfluous chatter with coins heavy over the eyes. 00:02:53.440 --> 00:02:58.310 align:middle line:84% Knowing, I keep asking the dead the wrong set of questions.' 00:02:58.310 --> 00:03:03.580 align:middle line:84% Was bees in the hold, a lake of bees, at graveyard fence rose. 00:03:03.580 --> 00:03:07.150 align:middle line:84% More bees and it's a storm, a slow wall 00:03:07.150 --> 00:03:15.010 align:middle line:84% of bees listening to us, write us down under gimmicky lights. 00:03:15.010 --> 00:03:19.060 align:middle line:84% Another code fathoms forth, and its messenger at the river 00:03:19.060 --> 00:03:20.620 align:middle line:90% cored like an apple. 00:03:20.620 --> 00:03:23.020 align:middle line:84% I guide them to a wind, which summons 00:03:23.020 --> 00:03:26.530 align:middle line:84% the forest from a man named Ashley and a boy 00:03:26.530 --> 00:03:28.300 align:middle line:90% he called Small. 00:03:28.300 --> 00:03:32.680 align:middle line:84% By lamp match to hydrangeas, a fold for disappeared ones, 00:03:32.680 --> 00:03:35.650 align:middle line:84% as this ink marks a 6 on the back of your hands 00:03:35.650 --> 00:03:38.020 align:middle line:84% it smudges your chin in the rain. 00:03:38.020 --> 00:03:40.210 align:middle line:84% And what they've said breaks into bats, 00:03:40.210 --> 00:03:44.290 align:middle line:84% which collects in hollows, it ungums out into the wake. 00:03:44.290 --> 00:03:47.380 align:middle line:84% So it goes record sleeves, flooded factions, 00:03:47.380 --> 00:03:49.690 align:middle line:84% ocean cutters, and news factories, 00:03:49.690 --> 00:03:52.510 align:middle line:84% giving constables back to the loam. 00:03:52.510 --> 00:03:57.010 align:middle line:84% Just when she tied her hair up with a pencil, who she was with 00:03:57.010 --> 00:04:01.060 align:middle line:84% fell through the floor as the candle sputtered and went out 00:04:01.060 --> 00:04:03.910 align:middle line:90% with what armors the birds. 00:04:03.910 --> 00:04:07.930 align:middle line:84% Now the hushed get even quieter, and its attendant coughs 00:04:07.930 --> 00:04:10.900 align:middle line:84% so hard, the elevator vanishes, botched 00:04:10.900 --> 00:04:15.880 align:middle line:84% trade winds drop an insignia to know which spot's ours. 00:04:15.880 --> 00:04:20.560 align:middle line:84% The wind's not gone, it's just gone inside for a while. 00:04:20.560 --> 00:04:22.390 align:middle line:84% As inspectors chalk out what they 00:04:22.390 --> 00:04:24.700 align:middle line:84% claim to forge into your familiars, 00:04:24.700 --> 00:04:28.930 align:middle line:84% the saint's pocket watch with the baby snake for hands, 00:04:28.930 --> 00:04:31.780 align:middle line:84% his music switches up with a whipping. 00:04:31.780 --> 00:04:36.190 align:middle line:84% Aspirin on coils and soda water, as a child rose out 00:04:36.190 --> 00:04:38.860 align:middle line:90% into the marsh fast as egrets. 00:04:38.860 --> 00:04:42.610 align:middle line:84% They dispersed powdery lime into cracks in the earth, 00:04:42.610 --> 00:04:45.820 align:middle line:90% and ants form their own weapon. 00:04:45.820 --> 00:04:49.000 align:middle line:84% What we request won't let us the way in. 00:04:49.000 --> 00:04:52.330 align:middle line:84% A crumbling blockade to cast off the lantern, 00:04:52.330 --> 00:04:55.300 align:middle line:84% and chart your way into bull rush and sedge. 00:04:55.300 --> 00:04:58.750 align:middle line:84% Our messenger with a dime to mark her egress, 00:04:58.750 --> 00:05:03.070 align:middle line:84% owned up with matches, now clobbering horizon stars, water 00:05:03.070 --> 00:05:05.700 align:middle line:84% as it cuts through black tea, the train 00:05:05.700 --> 00:05:07.980 align:middle line:84% steadies green weather against it. 00:05:07.980 --> 00:05:11.670 align:middle line:84% Darkness, not as deep as it looks in the photographs, 00:05:11.670 --> 00:05:14.310 align:middle line:84% shore breakers fog up the reedy fens, 00:05:14.310 --> 00:05:17.820 align:middle line:84% how to calm the blood down without undressing 00:05:17.820 --> 00:05:21.480 align:middle line:84% before the saint among the stragglers' beds. 00:05:21.480 --> 00:05:24.360 align:middle line:84% Mute lords with brandy thus toppled, 00:05:24.360 --> 00:05:28.410 align:middle line:84% using the steam as a fixative, and the winding sheet 00:05:28.410 --> 00:05:32.100 align:middle line:84% as a flag, using the butcher for an alibi. 00:05:32.100 --> 00:05:36.300 align:middle line:84% To disappear, you must tunnel discreet, descrying over 00:05:36.300 --> 00:05:38.580 align:middle line:90% nightfall with unclogged wind. 00:05:38.580 --> 00:05:41.580 align:middle line:84% This coast is longer than a train track 00:05:41.580 --> 00:05:45.270 align:middle line:84% needing coarse woolen cloth and the clothes you're in. 00:05:45.270 --> 00:05:49.500 align:middle line:84% So needing a bad song to whistle what's known, but may 00:05:49.500 --> 00:05:52.190 align:middle line:90% stick to another's mouth. 00:05:52.190 --> 00:05:56.910 align:middle line:84% Listening to our risked blood as if it were birds in there. 00:05:56.910 --> 00:06:00.240 align:middle line:84% We follow each other's eyes without turning around, 00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:03.960 align:middle line:84% had known sentinels by the color of their horrible hands, 00:06:03.960 --> 00:06:06.330 align:middle line:84% and new mail carriers from their teeth 00:06:06.330 --> 00:06:09.540 align:middle line:84% clicks so mistook the curtains for a way through. 00:06:09.540 --> 00:06:14.550 align:middle line:84% We fastened keys to our heels, quick oars, a slow lighthouse 00:06:14.550 --> 00:06:15.090 align:middle line:90% light. 00:06:15.090 --> 00:06:17.670 align:middle line:90% Twine, better than dogs. 00:06:17.670 --> 00:06:19.900 align:middle line:90% Dogs, better than accomplices. 00:06:19.900 --> 00:06:23.190 align:middle line:84% Rickety carousel and cement truck shadows 00:06:23.190 --> 00:06:25.830 align:middle line:90% from lost books, phantom noise. 00:06:25.830 --> 00:06:31.200 align:middle line:84% Clouds sent to water coins for coffee or pie, a corridor 00:06:31.200 --> 00:06:34.950 align:middle line:84% and its smock of "don't come all the way in here." 00:06:34.950 --> 00:06:38.280 align:middle line:84% A little star of salt inside the mouth. 00:06:38.280 --> 00:06:42.510 align:middle line:84% If images are what history decays into, 00:06:42.510 --> 00:06:45.300 align:middle line:90% we bring our enemies home. 00:06:45.300 --> 00:06:48.990 align:middle line:84% A brief history of rain collects what the eye brings down, 00:06:48.990 --> 00:06:51.960 align:middle line:84% what animals sleep under buzz snap, 00:06:51.960 --> 00:06:55.410 align:middle line:84% buzzing in the vacancy sign at the horseshoe-shaped Meadow's 00:06:55.410 --> 00:06:58.080 align:middle line:90% Bog, a bed as a rampart. 00:06:58.080 --> 00:07:01.200 align:middle line:84% No more unburied travelers cutting down 00:07:01.200 --> 00:07:04.770 align:middle line:84% night with their shoes, and socks, and stockings, 00:07:04.770 --> 00:07:05.700 align:middle line:90% and noise. 00:07:05.700 --> 00:07:08.040 align:middle line:84% Stockyard and upholsterer's moon. 00:07:08.040 --> 00:07:11.710 align:middle line:84% A button to button up lightning stuck in the pond, 00:07:11.710 --> 00:07:14.250 align:middle line:84% to throw a bit of dark all over us. 00:07:14.250 --> 00:07:16.140 align:middle line:84% And you know where to find me, here 00:07:16.140 --> 00:07:21.000 align:middle line:84% in the signature made small, spilled into shadow. 00:07:21.000 --> 00:07:23.940 align:middle line:84% So then the moon, drifting way too close, 00:07:23.940 --> 00:07:27.750 align:middle line:84% gets leaky, going through tree line when a voice in the radio 00:07:27.750 --> 00:07:29.820 align:middle line:90% accidentally says your own name. 00:07:29.820 --> 00:07:32.880 align:middle line:84% Lying might ferry us through several parts 00:07:32.880 --> 00:07:36.660 align:middle line:84% of the month, a little blood on the underside of the toilet 00:07:36.660 --> 00:07:37.380 align:middle line:90% seat. 00:07:37.380 --> 00:07:40.410 align:middle line:84% This kitchen window is saying something. 00:07:40.410 --> 00:07:44.040 align:middle line:84% So we should learn to listen with the palms of our hands. 00:07:44.040 --> 00:07:46.740 align:middle line:84% Fish, pulled into the drinking water, 00:07:46.740 --> 00:07:51.120 align:middle line:84% sucked into our sinks, a glass of lake. 00:07:51.120 --> 00:07:53.280 align:middle line:84% And I talk too long on the message machine. 00:07:53.280 --> 00:07:58.350 align:middle line:84% I forgot what I really wanted to say, that Max Roach is dead. 00:07:58.350 --> 00:08:00.120 align:middle line:90% Goodbye, Max Roach. 00:08:00.120 --> 00:08:03.690 align:middle line:84% Go softly into the ground or into the grassy airs. 00:08:03.690 --> 00:08:08.190 align:middle line:84% Now a dog is stranded on a raft in flood muck true, 00:08:08.190 --> 00:08:10.860 align:middle line:90% its littermates long dead, true. 00:08:10.860 --> 00:08:12.990 align:middle line:84% Swallows gather up in the air again 00:08:12.990 --> 00:08:16.590 align:middle line:84% like a bushel to pull the cartoon curtains shut-- 00:08:16.590 --> 00:08:17.310 align:middle line:90% true. 00:08:17.310 --> 00:08:21.750 align:middle line:84% Nothing against us, standing out here, waiting with Declan 00:08:21.750 --> 00:08:23.820 align:middle line:90% and cigarettes for any bus. 00:08:23.820 --> 00:08:28.290 align:middle line:84% Crooked city, we're sleeping more here, less where 00:08:28.290 --> 00:08:30.760 align:middle line:90% the librarian is so lovely. 00:08:30.760 --> 00:08:32.909 align:middle line:90% I start tripping and coughing. 00:08:32.909 --> 00:08:35.669 align:middle line:84% And the old sea goes frothing forth, 00:08:35.669 --> 00:08:38.070 align:middle line:84% an opening in the floor of the room. 00:08:38.070 --> 00:08:42.299 align:middle line:84% No school in the floods, floods in the school. 00:08:42.299 --> 00:08:44.340 align:middle line:90% You know this game, do you? 00:08:44.340 --> 00:08:47.340 align:middle line:84% Now the moon gets up out of the blankets 00:08:47.340 --> 00:08:50.370 align:middle line:84% and stars and starts its shopping cart wobble, 00:08:50.370 --> 00:08:52.470 align:middle line:90% mistaking us for fields. 00:08:52.470 --> 00:08:54.930 align:middle line:84% We're just dogs at the downy feathers, 00:08:54.930 --> 00:08:57.960 align:middle line:84% an icy, stuttering, soon to be offal, 00:08:57.960 --> 00:09:02.550 align:middle line:84% train yard, sleeping cars, sleeping, bickering in the bags 00:09:02.550 --> 00:09:04.440 align:middle line:90% and bagged. 00:09:04.440 --> 00:09:08.340 align:middle line:84% Left the machines out and on, and hidden beneath mailboxes. 00:09:08.340 --> 00:09:11.910 align:middle line:84% Truants do their listening through the pads of their feet. 00:09:11.910 --> 00:09:15.390 align:middle line:84% Water in them is their own set of messages. 00:09:15.390 --> 00:09:20.910 align:middle line:84% Radio waves-- like radio waves but chalkier, already inside us 00:09:20.910 --> 00:09:21.510 align:middle line:90% now. 00:09:21.510 --> 00:09:26.550 align:middle line:84% Fat dinosaur plants surround the wolves on a raft of lilacs. 00:09:26.550 --> 00:09:30.840 align:middle line:84% Unfreezing mud gathers on slender meadow boards. 00:09:30.840 --> 00:09:33.690 align:middle line:84% Horseflies do their weaving and trees list 00:09:33.690 --> 00:09:37.350 align:middle line:84% above thieves in the clearing, enlisting radios as phones, 00:09:37.350 --> 00:09:38.220 align:middle line:90% as nets. 00:09:38.220 --> 00:09:39.720 align:middle line:90% So it works us. 00:09:39.720 --> 00:09:42.240 align:middle line:90% But it works us lung-like. 00:09:42.240 --> 00:09:44.370 align:middle line:90% Now voices gob up the line. 00:09:44.370 --> 00:09:47.130 align:middle line:84% His red jacket, pulled from swamps, 00:09:47.130 --> 00:09:49.530 align:middle line:90% saying flowers bunch together. 00:09:49.530 --> 00:09:51.570 align:middle line:90% Tiny leaves get the tremolo. 00:09:51.570 --> 00:09:55.470 align:middle line:84% I wake in rushes and hollow out the bog with my phone 00:09:55.470 --> 00:09:59.010 align:middle line:84% as apartments, as compartments in the moon flicker on. 00:09:59.010 --> 00:10:02.100 align:middle line:84% A thimble note tied to a leaf falls before us 00:10:02.100 --> 00:10:04.170 align:middle line:90% and reads, triptych missing. 00:10:04.170 --> 00:10:07.740 align:middle line:84% In our year of the Lord's sleep-deprived ambler, 00:10:07.740 --> 00:10:11.820 align:middle line:84% these skinny beds of the wandered away. 00:10:11.820 --> 00:10:16.830 align:middle line:84% And the knife we thought carried the virus carried the virus. 00:10:16.830 --> 00:10:19.680 align:middle line:84% Hiding in the dumbwaiter for 10 minutes or a week, 00:10:19.680 --> 00:10:23.340 align:middle line:84% raccoons sniff out a hiss as bivouac winds give us 00:10:23.340 --> 00:10:24.120 align:middle line:90% their names. 00:10:24.120 --> 00:10:29.280 align:middle line:84% They hobble a coffin over the pigeony, cardboarded overmuch. 00:10:29.280 --> 00:10:32.880 align:middle line:84% They hobble, a shoe pulled clean away. 00:10:32.880 --> 00:10:34.530 align:middle line:90% I like how you hop-hop. 00:10:34.530 --> 00:10:37.050 align:middle line:84% And the pallbearers are doing what's to be done, 00:10:37.050 --> 00:10:38.760 align:middle line:90% but carefully so. 00:10:38.760 --> 00:10:43.020 align:middle line:84% Three men, already four pitchers deep, one with a shovel, 00:10:43.020 --> 00:10:46.260 align:middle line:84% rests it on the casket and won't recommence the digging 00:10:46.260 --> 00:10:49.270 align:middle line:84% till the dead start to put their clothing back on. 00:10:49.270 --> 00:10:52.350 align:middle line:84% Take their sketches to a pawn on division. 00:10:52.350 --> 00:10:56.580 align:middle line:84% It's here the yellow eyes of the so-called dead turn on like bus 00:10:56.580 --> 00:10:57.810 align:middle line:90% engines. 00:10:57.810 --> 00:11:00.030 align:middle line:90% And we have a little bourbon. 00:11:00.030 --> 00:11:02.370 align:middle line:90% We have a little more bourbon. 00:11:02.370 --> 00:11:04.800 align:middle line:84% Now water, and back, and a tarantella 00:11:04.800 --> 00:11:06.120 align:middle line:90% comes apart around us. 00:11:06.120 --> 00:11:09.090 align:middle line:84% And somebody gets up to dance with another body 00:11:09.090 --> 00:11:10.190 align:middle line:90% you don't know. 00:11:10.190 --> 00:11:12.180 align:middle line:90% Slowing down now, and another. 00:11:12.180 --> 00:11:15.690 align:middle line:84% The trees, palsy to our bad lines. 00:11:15.690 --> 00:11:18.360 align:middle line:90% A flood, a cold faction. 00:11:18.360 --> 00:11:21.210 align:middle line:84% Four dead cats under blackbirds in a row. 00:11:21.210 --> 00:11:24.750 align:middle line:84% That cawing brings up the blood how 00:11:24.750 --> 00:11:27.360 align:middle line:90% storms bring down the street. 00:11:27.360 --> 00:11:28.980 align:middle line:84% The sparrow feather in your lung, 00:11:28.980 --> 00:11:31.080 align:middle line:84% you could see it in the X-ray after they 00:11:31.080 --> 00:11:32.850 align:middle line:90% dragged that body in. 00:11:32.850 --> 00:11:34.950 align:middle line:84% None of us know this song backwards 00:11:34.950 --> 00:11:38.340 align:middle line:84% to rebuild the slashed meadow underground. 00:11:38.340 --> 00:11:42.150 align:middle line:84% So for the dead to carry us around, 00:11:42.150 --> 00:11:45.300 align:middle line:84% they're stapled to lost passwords, tricking 00:11:45.300 --> 00:11:47.530 align:middle line:90% no shame in what we unearth. 00:11:47.530 --> 00:11:52.800 align:middle line:84% Loss is a feature of what you failed to divide yourself from. 00:11:52.800 --> 00:11:55.080 align:middle line:90% More gossip by thumbtack. 00:11:55.080 --> 00:11:57.600 align:middle line:84% Away from this now says something other 00:11:57.600 --> 00:12:00.150 align:middle line:84% than the dead are forever under us. 00:12:00.150 --> 00:12:02.940 align:middle line:90% And it gets its draggy nets out. 00:12:02.940 --> 00:12:05.640 align:middle line:84% I get a moment in the bathroom and don't 00:12:05.640 --> 00:12:08.150 align:middle line:90% know what alone to do with it. 00:12:08.150 --> 00:12:12.360 align:middle line:84% Weather's been casting spells over this fucked-up town, now 00:12:12.360 --> 00:12:15.400 align:middle line:84% bored that we can't fathom each other, 00:12:15.400 --> 00:12:18.720 align:middle line:84% let alone cesspools, reedy sleuths, spools, 00:12:18.720 --> 00:12:21.240 align:middle line:84% to clouds from all God's children 00:12:21.240 --> 00:12:23.730 align:middle line:84% above their slant-wise, pillowy light. 00:12:23.730 --> 00:12:29.220 align:middle line:84% The maps get watery and start moving us around like deer. 00:12:29.220 --> 00:12:32.790 align:middle line:84% What's known fits into the heart of a single post 00:12:32.790 --> 00:12:34.840 align:middle line:90% office in a small city. 00:12:34.840 --> 00:12:37.980 align:middle line:84% So we copy out a long apology on paper towels 00:12:37.980 --> 00:12:41.910 align:middle line:84% from a latrine as the sky marks a truce with its soft insides. 00:12:41.910 --> 00:12:44.940 align:middle line:84% It's won, but won't gloat for clammy sorrow. 00:12:44.940 --> 00:12:50.490 align:middle line:84% The mailman finally just brings me a strawberry pie. 00:12:50.490 --> 00:12:53.200 align:middle line:84% And I let the phone ring, and ring, and ring, and ring, 00:12:53.200 --> 00:12:53.700 align:middle line:90% and ring. 00:12:53.700 --> 00:12:56.220 align:middle line:90% It's glorious, this ringing. 00:12:56.220 --> 00:12:58.470 align:middle line:84% Now that bear rug's hung from an era 00:12:58.470 --> 00:13:02.860 align:middle line:84% we no longer know to serve by speech or genuflection. 00:13:02.860 --> 00:13:06.190 align:middle line:84% Fritz Cove Road dwindles down to a patch of currents. 00:13:06.190 --> 00:13:09.130 align:middle line:84% We keep the yellow off our necks and line up for the hills 00:13:09.130 --> 00:13:10.210 align:middle line:90% to rename us. 00:13:10.210 --> 00:13:11.620 align:middle line:90% Here's what I go by now. 00:13:11.620 --> 00:13:13.390 align:middle line:90% I go by Edgar Huntley now. 00:13:13.390 --> 00:13:15.100 align:middle line:90% I go all over with this. 00:13:15.100 --> 00:13:16.570 align:middle line:90% I go singing it now. 00:13:16.570 --> 00:13:19.720 align:middle line:84% Woods do that, tugging, and put a watch on your brothers. 00:13:19.720 --> 00:13:23.170 align:middle line:84% So how do you keep a river out of your house, 00:13:23.170 --> 00:13:25.030 align:middle line:84% as the thieves just walk into the ditch 00:13:25.030 --> 00:13:27.910 align:middle line:84% and lie down when the rains become a broom? 00:13:27.910 --> 00:13:31.150 align:middle line:84% Until cemetery groundskeepers met him in the back of the bar, 00:13:31.150 --> 00:13:34.870 align:middle line:84% he had asked me to hold the payphone receiver while I 00:13:34.870 --> 00:13:37.360 align:middle line:90% was standing there with my dog. 00:13:37.360 --> 00:13:40.210 align:middle line:90% What song drifts into you? 00:13:40.210 --> 00:13:44.950 align:middle line:84% What bad song drifts from you to somebody else down storm 00:13:44.950 --> 00:13:47.470 align:middle line:84% drains, the pull of our sacked city 00:13:47.470 --> 00:13:51.040 align:middle line:84% gushing in pieces, everybody saying goodbye, and goodnight, 00:13:51.040 --> 00:13:53.012 align:middle line:84% and off with you, then off with you, and yours, 00:13:53.012 --> 00:13:54.220 align:middle line:90% and fondly, and off with you. 00:13:54.220 --> 00:13:55.420 align:middle line:90% And I'll say off with you now. 00:13:55.420 --> 00:13:56.140 align:middle line:90% Be gone with you. 00:13:56.140 --> 00:13:57.760 align:middle line:90% Off on your way. 00:13:57.760 --> 00:14:01.090 align:middle line:84% Nightgowns and hymnals of the so-called living, 00:14:01.090 --> 00:14:03.130 align:middle line:90% tread nightly off. 00:14:03.130 --> 00:14:06.440 align:middle line:84% Some chubby white reservoir towers are here. 00:14:06.440 --> 00:14:08.710 align:middle line:90% But are we here also? 00:14:08.710 --> 00:14:11.170 align:middle line:84% Dragoons and daguerreotypes carried out 00:14:11.170 --> 00:14:17.290 align:middle line:84% no wars, thieves, songs, words, rhythms are this way known. 00:14:17.290 --> 00:14:19.900 align:middle line:84% And the phone booth in the dream-- 00:14:19.900 --> 00:14:21.700 align:middle line:90% no, I'm on top. 00:14:21.700 --> 00:14:26.140 align:middle line:84% And the river flood strands a mutt I don't know on a porch. 00:14:26.140 --> 00:14:28.360 align:middle line:84% But it's not river water, proper. 00:14:28.360 --> 00:14:33.130 align:middle line:84% It's fish, and shit, and people face down, floating by, 00:14:33.130 --> 00:14:36.370 align:middle line:84% telephone lines, and some wires cabled into the muck. 00:14:36.370 --> 00:14:38.020 align:middle line:90% No horror to come. 00:14:38.020 --> 00:14:38.840 align:middle line:90% It is here. 00:14:38.840 --> 00:14:40.570 align:middle line:90% And so my radio clicks on. 00:14:40.570 --> 00:14:43.330 align:middle line:84% Nimbused the window with a cigarette lighter 00:14:43.330 --> 00:14:44.530 align:middle line:90% she'd climbed out of. 00:14:44.530 --> 00:14:47.710 align:middle line:84% It was one of those motel rooms with adjoining doors. 00:14:47.710 --> 00:14:49.780 align:middle line:90% I give it a little knock. 00:14:49.780 --> 00:14:52.720 align:middle line:90% It gives me a little knock back. 00:14:52.720 --> 00:14:56.800 align:middle line:84% This girl may be seven, maybe eight in the tavern. 00:14:56.800 --> 00:14:59.620 align:middle line:90% She's all tooth and freckles. 00:14:59.620 --> 00:15:02.650 align:middle line:90% Asks, what's your dog's name? 00:15:02.650 --> 00:15:04.210 align:middle line:90% It's Bella. 00:15:04.210 --> 00:15:07.090 align:middle line:84% And wants to know if my dog has a heart, too. 00:15:07.090 --> 00:15:10.810 align:middle line:84% So brindle Bella lets this kid lift her to her small ear 00:15:10.810 --> 00:15:14.860 align:middle line:84% and says, I can hear something in your dog. 00:15:14.860 --> 00:15:17.260 align:middle line:84% Her mother's in hip waders, fishing around 00:15:17.260 --> 00:15:19.330 align:middle line:90% with a huge, willowy net. 00:15:19.330 --> 00:15:21.250 align:middle line:84% The little girl and her two sisters-- 00:15:21.250 --> 00:15:23.800 align:middle line:90% yes, the messengers, now sing. 00:15:23.800 --> 00:15:27.490 align:middle line:84% The mice scurry but are actually rearranging to say something I 00:15:27.490 --> 00:15:31.480 align:middle line:84% just cannot know what, holding my cell phone as a lantern. 00:15:31.480 --> 00:15:33.040 align:middle line:90% And dusk is gone. 00:15:33.040 --> 00:15:34.780 align:middle line:84% Her mother stays out in the waters. 00:15:34.780 --> 00:15:38.620 align:middle line:84% But the music of its lap starts sloshing going slap, slap. 00:15:38.620 --> 00:15:41.050 align:middle line:84% So thread the pedal steel and voice, 00:15:41.050 --> 00:15:43.300 align:middle line:84% lovely at breaking its own register. 00:15:43.300 --> 00:15:47.260 align:middle line:84% Vipers do this and Geeshie Wiley can too. 00:15:47.260 --> 00:15:51.730 align:middle line:84% Laughter carries its own corpulent history in gravel. 00:15:51.730 --> 00:15:54.790 align:middle line:84% How light is projected from bored stars, 00:15:54.790 --> 00:15:58.270 align:middle line:84% a little story with no yarn, no doorknob, 00:15:58.270 --> 00:16:01.540 align:middle line:84% because wind is a deterrent and digging 00:16:01.540 --> 00:16:06.220 align:middle line:84% is a method for distracting the living from the dead. 00:16:06.220 --> 00:16:09.610 align:middle line:84% Gossip is the break in a forest where the recording 00:16:09.610 --> 00:16:13.420 align:middle line:84% devices click back on to show us how sadness works in the loop. 00:16:13.420 --> 00:16:15.820 align:middle line:84% The light you see cannot hear you, 00:16:15.820 --> 00:16:17.920 align:middle line:90% a blessing the camera's refuse. 00:16:17.920 --> 00:16:21.550 align:middle line:84% What follows us in is the long, white cables 00:16:21.550 --> 00:16:23.740 align:middle line:90% we've hooked our cities to. 00:16:23.740 --> 00:16:28.420 align:middle line:84% The trees, undoing what we claim to have claimed. 00:16:28.420 --> 00:16:31.570 align:middle line:84% Deeds, gone that we said we'd do. 00:16:31.570 --> 00:16:33.250 align:middle line:90% Gone also. 00:16:33.250 --> 00:16:36.130 align:middle line:84% I, too, have come between ice shelves 00:16:36.130 --> 00:16:39.460 align:middle line:84% to debase the coinage, or at least 00:16:39.460 --> 00:16:43.180 align:middle line:84% song line the blooded now-known to your forebears. 00:16:43.180 --> 00:16:47.830 align:middle line:84% Their fables, no longer what's used to keep us here. 00:16:47.830 --> 00:16:51.130 align:middle line:90% We are used to keep us here. 00:16:51.130 --> 00:16:53.950 align:middle line:84% River water, deep in us like declension. 00:16:53.950 --> 00:16:56.560 align:middle line:84% It's not as though spiders follow up with us. 00:16:56.560 --> 00:17:00.610 align:middle line:84% Now the sky gets blacker because that's what it's made out of. 00:17:00.610 --> 00:17:04.810 align:middle line:84% What we sight, labors under the force of naming it. 00:17:04.810 --> 00:17:08.140 align:middle line:84% Beyond pallbearers, no history makes itself up. 00:17:08.140 --> 00:17:10.420 align:middle line:84% What we mean with history is just 00:17:10.420 --> 00:17:14.109 align:middle line:84% a treadle for hagiography's dumb show, 00:17:14.109 --> 00:17:17.890 align:middle line:84% rivering through your lines to a digger of grief under the ice. 00:17:17.890 --> 00:17:21.880 align:middle line:84% That black box is now frozen, gerrymandering the Lord's-- 00:17:21.880 --> 00:17:25.569 align:middle line:84% Lord's-- Lord's experience with the bad story we'd whisper 00:17:25.569 --> 00:17:27.369 align:middle line:90% along scanned notes. 00:17:27.369 --> 00:17:30.490 align:middle line:84% Maybe Decoration Day meant bitters 00:17:30.490 --> 00:17:32.440 align:middle line:84% at a coleopterous scattering, or how 00:17:32.440 --> 00:17:34.720 align:middle line:84% to cozen your four fingers forward 00:17:34.720 --> 00:17:37.270 align:middle line:90% into the purse dangling down. 00:17:37.270 --> 00:17:38.740 align:middle line:90% A satchel of diamonds-- 00:17:38.740 --> 00:17:40.180 align:middle line:90% I'm right about that. 00:17:40.180 --> 00:17:42.790 align:middle line:84% That's the transom an itty bit ajar. 00:17:42.790 --> 00:17:44.970 align:middle line:90% Thanks for listening. 00:17:44.970 --> 00:17:45.472 align:middle line:90%