WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.830 align:middle line:90% 00:00:01.830 --> 00:00:06.420 align:middle line:84% The last poem I'll read is "Sound Part 4: 00:00:06.420 --> 00:00:09.600 align:middle line:90% Notes on Polyphony." 00:00:09.600 --> 00:00:13.860 align:middle line:84% There's been so many smart and amazing questions 00:00:13.860 --> 00:00:24.240 align:middle line:84% and conversations all day today, and when I wrote this poem, 00:00:24.240 --> 00:00:28.680 align:middle line:84% I thought a little bit more about what is felt 00:00:28.680 --> 00:00:33.210 align:middle line:84% and what's intuitive and sometimes can't be explained. 00:00:33.210 --> 00:00:36.270 align:middle line:84% And maybe sometimes, that's the only shortcoming 00:00:36.270 --> 00:00:41.770 align:middle line:84% of academic life and sometimes poetry. 00:00:41.770 --> 00:00:46.440 align:middle line:84% So I'm also interested a lot in the not knowing or maybe not 00:00:46.440 --> 00:00:49.650 align:middle line:84% being all knowing and then things that are felt, 00:00:49.650 --> 00:00:53.430 align:middle line:84% so I really like to honor that sometimes, too. 00:00:53.430 --> 00:00:57.310 align:middle line:84% Sometimes, I just want to say, I have no idea. 00:00:57.310 --> 00:01:00.060 align:middle line:90% I don't know. 00:01:00.060 --> 00:01:04.190 align:middle line:90% What you said sounds good to me. 00:01:04.190 --> 00:01:08.280 align:middle line:90% Phew, OK, last poem. 00:01:08.280 --> 00:01:16.680 align:middle line:84% "At first, I felt my head was too much with me. 00:01:16.680 --> 00:01:21.540 align:middle line:84% Take it off, I heard a voice say. 00:01:21.540 --> 00:01:26.550 align:middle line:84% Your head, you got to take it off. 00:01:26.550 --> 00:01:35.940 align:middle line:84% So I close my eyes and took my head by the ears and turned. 00:01:35.940 --> 00:01:44.250 align:middle line:84% It came off easy, my head, like all my life, 00:01:44.250 --> 00:01:49.600 align:middle line:84% it was waiting for me to unscrew it. 00:01:49.600 --> 00:01:55.170 align:middle line:84% So I sat it down quietly beside me, 00:01:55.170 --> 00:02:02.040 align:middle line:84% and this allowed my mouth, which all before had been sewed shut, 00:02:02.040 --> 00:02:05.460 align:middle line:90% to open and sing. 00:02:05.460 --> 00:02:07.920 align:middle line:90% What have I to dread? 00:02:07.920 --> 00:02:11.130 align:middle line:90% What have I to fear? 00:02:11.130 --> 00:02:16.440 align:middle line:84% And my hips, torso, and upright arms 00:02:16.440 --> 00:02:21.540 align:middle line:84% trembled at that sudden a cappella. 00:02:21.540 --> 00:02:27.870 align:middle line:84% I want to thank you for hearing this small trickle in a sea. 00:02:27.870 --> 00:02:32.820 align:middle line:84% I am trying to steady myself as I wait. 00:02:32.820 --> 00:02:37.680 align:middle line:84% There's a bored shark coloring the water. 00:02:37.680 --> 00:02:42.960 align:middle line:84% There's a girl cradling her hair, her head somewhere. 00:02:42.960 --> 00:02:47.370 align:middle line:84% She is lost, and someone has left her at the shore 00:02:47.370 --> 00:02:51.990 align:middle line:84% without a song, without a whistle. 00:02:51.990 --> 00:02:57.540 align:middle line:84% There is only her blood and the blood of her siblings. 00:02:57.540 --> 00:03:03.060 align:middle line:84% There is only the sun like the glimmer of the State's buttons 00:03:03.060 --> 00:03:06.180 align:middle line:90% erasing that girl. 00:03:06.180 --> 00:03:09.210 align:middle line:84% You have placed her in my throat, 00:03:09.210 --> 00:03:13.500 align:middle line:90% and now I can reattach my head. 00:03:13.500 --> 00:03:16.770 align:middle line:90% And the girl is inside me. 00:03:16.770 --> 00:03:25.410 align:middle line:84% She can move now as my body moves, my neck, my head 00:03:25.410 --> 00:03:26.730 align:middle line:90% nodding." 00:03:26.730 --> 00:03:27.360 align:middle line:90% Thank you. 00:03:27.360 --> 00:03:29.210 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE]