WEBVTT

00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.930 align:middle line:90%


00:00:01.930 --> 00:00:13.320 align:middle line:84%
I want to end with maybe two
poems from the past few months.

00:00:13.320 --> 00:00:21.620 align:middle line:90%


00:00:21.620 --> 00:00:27.590 align:middle line:84%
The first of them is a
one poem from a series

00:00:27.590 --> 00:00:34.850 align:middle line:84%
that have to do with my
father's death some years ago.

00:00:34.850 --> 00:00:36.560 align:middle line:84%
This poem is called
Strawberries.

00:00:36.560 --> 00:00:42.570 align:middle line:90%


00:00:42.570 --> 00:00:47.160 align:middle line:84%
When my father died,
I saw a narrow valley.

00:00:47.160 --> 00:00:50.130 align:middle line:84%
It looked as though it
began across the river

00:00:50.130 --> 00:00:52.907 align:middle line:84%
from the landing,
where he was born.

00:00:52.907 --> 00:00:53.865 align:middle line:90%
But there was no river.

00:00:53.865 --> 00:00:56.760 align:middle line:90%


00:00:56.760 --> 00:00:59.130 align:middle line:84%
I was holding the sand
of a small vegetable

00:00:59.130 --> 00:01:03.450 align:middle line:84%
plot for my mother
in deepening twilight

00:01:03.450 --> 00:01:09.030 align:middle line:84%
and looked up in time to see a
farm wagon dry and gray horse

00:01:09.030 --> 00:01:14.580 align:middle line:84%
already hidden, and no driver
going into the valley carrying

00:01:14.580 --> 00:01:16.530 align:middle line:90%
a casket.

00:01:16.530 --> 00:01:19.440 align:middle line:84%
And another wagon
coming out of the valley

00:01:19.440 --> 00:01:23.670 align:middle line:84%
behind the gray horse,
with a boy driving,

00:01:23.670 --> 00:01:28.350 align:middle line:84%
and a high load of two
kinds of berries one of them

00:01:28.350 --> 00:01:29.340 align:middle line:90%
strawberries.

00:01:29.340 --> 00:01:32.120 align:middle line:90%


00:01:32.120 --> 00:01:34.340 align:middle line:84%
That night when I
slept, I dreamed

00:01:34.340 --> 00:01:36.470 align:middle line:90%
of things wrong in the house.

00:01:36.470 --> 00:01:38.660 align:middle line:90%
All of them signs.

00:01:38.660 --> 00:01:41.240 align:middle line:84%
The water of the shower
running brackish,

00:01:41.240 --> 00:01:43.670 align:middle line:84%
and an insect of a
kind I had seen him

00:01:43.670 --> 00:01:49.520 align:middle line:84%
kill climbing around the
walls of this bathroom.

00:01:49.520 --> 00:01:52.760 align:middle line:84%
Up in the morning, I
stopped on the stairs.

00:01:52.760 --> 00:01:55.460 align:middle line:84%
My mother was awake
already and asked me

00:01:55.460 --> 00:01:58.760 align:middle line:84%
if I wanted a shower
before breakfast.

00:01:58.760 --> 00:02:03.580 align:middle line:84%
And for breakfast, she
said, we have strawberries.

00:02:03.580 --> 00:02:14.479 align:middle line:90%