WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.700 align:middle line:90% I was taught-- who was I? 00:00:01.700 --> 00:00:04.019 align:middle line:84% I met someone in the room earlier. 00:00:04.019 --> 00:00:07.853 align:middle line:84% I came without my poems so I had a moment of freak out. 00:00:07.853 --> 00:00:09.270 align:middle line:84% And as I was printing them someone 00:00:09.270 --> 00:00:12.510 align:middle line:90% was talking about animal poems. 00:00:12.510 --> 00:00:16.410 align:middle line:84% That they were in a class reading animal poems. 00:00:16.410 --> 00:00:18.690 align:middle line:84% So I'm going to read a couple of animal poems. 00:00:18.690 --> 00:00:20.310 align:middle line:90% But maybe I'll read a-- 00:00:20.310 --> 00:00:23.970 align:middle line:84% maybe I should give us a happy poem. 00:00:23.970 --> 00:00:27.492 align:middle line:84% I've also been writing a series of love poems. 00:00:27.492 --> 00:00:29.700 align:middle line:84% We talked a little bit about this in the class today. 00:00:29.700 --> 00:00:31.617 align:middle line:84% It was a really great discussion in the class. 00:00:31.617 --> 00:00:34.323 align:middle line:90% The students were quite amazing. 00:00:34.323 --> 00:00:35.490 align:middle line:90% You want to take that again? 00:00:35.490 --> 00:00:37.905 align:middle line:90% You know, pick my chin up. 00:00:37.905 --> 00:00:40.880 align:middle line:84% Do you have the Mojave app that takes the chin away? 00:00:40.880 --> 00:00:43.920 align:middle line:84% That's what you need on that one. 00:00:43.920 --> 00:00:45.480 align:middle line:84% I almost got offended when Larry said 00:00:45.480 --> 00:00:48.690 align:middle line:84% I was going to be rounding out the reading. 00:00:48.690 --> 00:00:51.840 align:middle line:84% Because I thought he was talking about my cheeks. 00:00:51.840 --> 00:00:56.230 align:middle line:90% But I don't think he was. 00:00:56.230 --> 00:01:02.010 align:middle line:84% But I'm always struck by our hands. 00:01:02.010 --> 00:01:03.732 align:middle line:90% We take them so for granted. 00:01:03.732 --> 00:01:05.940 align:middle line:84% But if you look at your hands, like, every good thing 00:01:05.940 --> 00:01:10.260 align:middle line:84% that comes to us it's initiated by our hands. 00:01:10.260 --> 00:01:12.090 align:middle line:84% You know when you meet somebody, you 00:01:12.090 --> 00:01:14.460 align:middle line:84% reach out to touch somebody, you pick something up. 00:01:14.460 --> 00:01:17.460 align:middle line:84% You know, but also every bad thing that we do 00:01:17.460 --> 00:01:20.550 align:middle line:84% is in the same way initiated by your hands. 00:01:20.550 --> 00:01:23.550 align:middle line:84% You know, like whether it's a trigger or to hit somebody 00:01:23.550 --> 00:01:25.170 align:middle line:90% or to push somebody away. 00:01:25.170 --> 00:01:26.148 align:middle line:90% And I'm just-- 00:01:26.148 --> 00:01:27.690 align:middle line:84% I don't know, I'm always a little bit 00:01:27.690 --> 00:01:30.270 align:middle line:84% overwhelmed and overcome by that idea 00:01:30.270 --> 00:01:32.400 align:middle line:84% that we carry these things around with us 00:01:32.400 --> 00:01:34.260 align:middle line:90% and what they're capable of. 00:01:34.260 --> 00:01:37.270 align:middle line:90% 00:01:37.270 --> 00:01:41.310 align:middle line:90% "These Hands If Not Gods." 00:01:41.310 --> 00:01:45.240 align:middle line:84% Haven't they moved like rivers, like glory, 00:01:45.240 --> 00:01:49.440 align:middle line:84% like light over the seven days of your body. 00:01:49.440 --> 00:01:51.360 align:middle line:90% And wasn't that good? 00:01:51.360 --> 00:01:53.250 align:middle line:90% Them at your hips? 00:01:53.250 --> 00:01:57.180 align:middle line:84% Isn't this what God felt when he pressed together 00:01:57.180 --> 00:01:59.220 align:middle line:90% the first beloved. 00:01:59.220 --> 00:02:00.660 align:middle line:90% Everything. 00:02:00.660 --> 00:02:01.560 align:middle line:90% Fever. 00:02:01.560 --> 00:02:02.410 align:middle line:90% Vapor. 00:02:02.410 --> 00:02:03.270 align:middle line:90% Atman. 00:02:03.270 --> 00:02:04.330 align:middle line:90% Pulses. 00:02:04.330 --> 00:02:07.500 align:middle line:90% Finally a sin worth hurting for. 00:02:07.500 --> 00:02:09.330 align:middle line:90% Finally a sweet. 00:02:09.330 --> 00:02:12.270 align:middle line:90% A you are mine. 00:02:12.270 --> 00:02:15.210 align:middle line:84% It is hard not to have faith in this. 00:02:15.210 --> 00:02:17.640 align:middle line:84% From the blue, brown clay of night 00:02:17.640 --> 00:02:22.050 align:middle line:84% these two potters crushed and smoothed you into being. 00:02:22.050 --> 00:02:26.010 align:middle line:84% Grind then curve, built your form up. 00:02:26.010 --> 00:02:27.450 align:middle line:90% Atlas of bone. 00:02:27.450 --> 00:02:29.100 align:middle line:90% Fields of muscle. 00:02:29.100 --> 00:02:31.110 align:middle line:90% One breast a fig tree. 00:02:31.110 --> 00:02:36.540 align:middle line:84% The other a nightingale both morning and evening. 00:02:36.540 --> 00:02:39.360 align:middle line:90% Oh the beautiful making they do. 00:02:39.360 --> 00:02:44.220 align:middle line:84% Of trigger and carve, suffering and stars. 00:02:44.220 --> 00:02:46.980 align:middle line:84% Aren't they too the dark carpenters 00:02:46.980 --> 00:02:48.840 align:middle line:90% of your small church? 00:02:48.840 --> 00:02:52.260 align:middle line:84% Have they not burned on the altar of your belly, 00:02:52.260 --> 00:02:57.720 align:middle line:84% eaten the bread of your thighs, broke you to wine, to ichor, 00:02:57.720 --> 00:02:59.970 align:middle line:90% to nectareous feast? 00:02:59.970 --> 00:03:02.820 align:middle line:84% Haven't they riveted your wrists? 00:03:02.820 --> 00:03:06.400 align:middle line:84% Haven't they had you at your knees? 00:03:06.400 --> 00:03:08.880 align:middle line:84% And when these hands touched your throat, 00:03:08.880 --> 00:03:12.570 align:middle line:84% showed you how to take the apple and the rib. 00:03:12.570 --> 00:03:16.650 align:middle line:84% How to slip a thumb into your mouth and taste it all. 00:03:16.650 --> 00:03:19.950 align:middle line:84% Didn't you sing out their 99 names? 00:03:19.950 --> 00:03:25.980 align:middle line:84% Zahir, Aleph, Hand's-time-seven, Sphinx, Leonids, locomotora, 00:03:25.980 --> 00:03:29.610 align:middle line:90% Rubidium, August, and September. 00:03:29.610 --> 00:03:32.760 align:middle line:84% And when you cried out, "Oh Prometheans," 00:03:32.760 --> 00:03:35.430 align:middle line:90% didn't they bring fire? 00:03:35.430 --> 00:03:39.930 align:middle line:84% These hands, if not Gods, then why when you have come to me 00:03:39.930 --> 00:03:43.920 align:middle line:84% and I have returned you to that from which you came. 00:03:43.920 --> 00:03:44.970 align:middle line:90% Bright mud. 00:03:44.970 --> 00:03:51.090 align:middle line:84% Mineral salt. Why then do you whisper, "Oh my Hecatonchire. 00:03:51.090 --> 00:03:52.740 align:middle line:90% My Centimani. 00:03:52.740 --> 00:03:55.511 align:middle line:90% My hundred handed one?" 00:03:55.511 --> 00:03:56.011 align:middle line:90%