WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.540 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.540 --> 00:00:03.960 align:middle line:84% In the final section I'm going to read tonight, 00:00:03.960 --> 00:00:07.920 align:middle line:84% there's a reprise here from Sonny Terry and Blind Willie 00:00:07.920 --> 00:00:11.760 align:middle line:84% McGhee, who we listened to on the road home. 00:00:11.760 --> 00:00:15.030 align:middle line:84% River-- one other thing, that Tom referred 00:00:15.030 --> 00:00:18.060 align:middle line:84% to who is an art critic and friend of mine 00:00:18.060 --> 00:00:22.140 align:middle line:84% called Tom Lubbock, who died of a brain tumor. 00:00:22.140 --> 00:00:24.330 align:middle line:84% And he wrote a very moving memoir 00:00:24.330 --> 00:00:27.630 align:middle line:84% as he was going through that process, where 00:00:27.630 --> 00:00:35.100 align:middle line:84% he regards the loss of language and his own mind in this book. 00:00:35.100 --> 00:00:39.820 align:middle line:90% River Inverianvie, Wester Ross. 00:00:39.820 --> 00:00:42.550 align:middle line:84% Pulling my legs along with my eyes, 00:00:42.550 --> 00:00:46.660 align:middle line:84% drawing a straight line in between gray clitch boulders 00:00:46.660 --> 00:00:48.730 align:middle line:90% and tarry puddles. 00:00:48.730 --> 00:00:51.460 align:middle line:90% Walk on, walk on. 00:00:51.460 --> 00:00:55.630 align:middle line:84% When your boots get bent, walk on. 00:00:55.630 --> 00:00:59.890 align:middle line:84% Walk on to the White noise of the waterfall. 00:00:59.890 --> 00:01:05.319 align:middle line:84% Walk on, walk on with a dream of the lock-in. 00:01:05.319 --> 00:01:10.750 align:middle line:84% Walk on, walk on as far as the nameless Glen. 00:01:10.750 --> 00:01:13.180 align:middle line:90% Walk on, walk on. 00:01:13.180 --> 00:01:18.730 align:middle line:84% Kissed beneath cairn and loch and dew, the dark loch cairn. 00:01:18.730 --> 00:01:21.610 align:middle line:90% Walk on, walk on. 00:01:21.610 --> 00:01:26.170 align:middle line:90% Sensing skyline after skyline. 00:01:26.170 --> 00:01:29.110 align:middle line:90% Walk on, walk on. 00:01:29.110 --> 00:01:32.230 align:middle line:84% Anticipating every bend of the river. 00:01:32.230 --> 00:01:34.930 align:middle line:90% Walk on, walk on. 00:01:34.930 --> 00:01:39.910 align:middle line:84% This far, this close to the water. 00:01:39.910 --> 00:01:42.640 align:middle line:90% Walk on, walk on. 00:01:42.640 --> 00:01:49.030 align:middle line:84% Partway up and in very envy or partway down. 00:01:49.030 --> 00:01:52.690 align:middle line:90% Walk on, walk on. 00:01:52.690 --> 00:01:56.830 align:middle line:84% Wherever we are now, I can go no further. 00:01:56.830 --> 00:02:00.220 align:middle line:84% Looking back than the path to the sea. 00:02:00.220 --> 00:02:01.960 align:middle line:90% Letting go of the lock. 00:02:01.960 --> 00:02:07.750 align:middle line:84% I pour the tea, thinking of dear Tom still giving illumination 00:02:07.750 --> 00:02:10.630 align:middle line:84% as language flickered and dimmed. 00:02:10.630 --> 00:02:16.480 align:middle line:90% Tom, poetry is still beautiful. 00:02:16.480 --> 00:02:22.380 align:middle line:84% Taking me with it, quiet but still something. 00:02:22.380 --> 00:02:26.700 align:middle line:90% Ground, river, and sea. 00:02:26.700 --> 00:02:30.470 align:middle line:90% My body, my tree. 00:02:30.470 --> 00:02:33.785 align:middle line:84% After that, it becomes simply the world. 00:02:33.785 --> 00:02:36.420 align:middle line:90% 00:02:36.420 --> 00:02:39.870 align:middle line:84% Accepting the mountains may remain too high. 00:02:39.870 --> 00:02:42.300 align:middle line:84% Reeling in the grip of exhaustion, 00:02:42.300 --> 00:02:47.340 align:middle line:84% I nod to the two climbers descending from An Teallach 00:02:47.340 --> 00:02:51.690 align:middle line:84% as they pass sullen with exhaustion. 00:02:51.690 --> 00:02:55.690 align:middle line:90% Being in far eye for days. 00:02:55.690 --> 00:03:02.850 align:middle line:84% I'm too shy to ask, what did you see, how bad was the weather? 00:03:02.850 --> 00:03:06.660 align:middle line:84% Now I have to find my way out of this glen, 00:03:06.660 --> 00:03:11.700 align:middle line:84% back by the water flow, leaving my wishes to walk on. 00:03:11.700 --> 00:03:16.440 align:middle line:84% Walk on, over the next rise, walk on. 00:03:16.440 --> 00:03:19.950 align:middle line:90% Walk on, around the next bend. 00:03:19.950 --> 00:03:25.800 align:middle line:84% To look of adding more, the big look of the world. 00:03:25.800 --> 00:03:27.950 align:middle line:90% Thank you, all.