WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.530 align:middle line:90% 00:00:01.530 --> 00:00:05.100 align:middle line:84% This next two sections I'll read is-- 00:00:05.100 --> 00:00:07.860 align:middle line:84% they're sonnets and they're from interviews 00:00:07.860 --> 00:00:17.330 align:middle line:84% that I did with the daughters of incarcerated men, women, who-- 00:00:17.330 --> 00:00:20.640 align:middle line:84% their parents were incarcerated either for all 00:00:20.640 --> 00:00:23.790 align:middle line:84% or most of their lives, and the dynamic 00:00:23.790 --> 00:00:26.490 align:middle line:84% of being released-- their parents being 00:00:26.490 --> 00:00:34.320 align:middle line:84% released and having that first moment of like contact 00:00:34.320 --> 00:00:36.460 align:middle line:90% or memory, being their wedding. 00:00:36.460 --> 00:00:36.960 align:middle line:90% All right. 00:00:36.960 --> 00:00:39.570 align:middle line:84% So going from like babies to wedding. 00:00:39.570 --> 00:00:43.320 align:middle line:90% Specifically, I don't know. 00:00:43.320 --> 00:00:49.440 align:middle line:84% I mean, I'm like not a traditional person, 00:00:49.440 --> 00:00:54.040 align:middle line:84% but thinking about that father-daughter dance, 00:00:54.040 --> 00:00:58.890 align:middle line:84% and so I wrote two sonnets based off 00:00:58.890 --> 00:01:01.620 align:middle line:84% of two photographs of one specific person 00:01:01.620 --> 00:01:02.880 align:middle line:90% that I spoke to. 00:01:02.880 --> 00:01:06.840 align:middle line:84% One is a sonnet about the white wedding dress, 00:01:06.840 --> 00:01:09.660 align:middle line:84% and one is a sonnet about the blue-- 00:01:09.660 --> 00:01:12.720 align:middle line:84% the sapphire wedding dress that she wore to have 00:01:12.720 --> 00:01:15.080 align:middle line:90% her first dance with her dad. 00:01:15.080 --> 00:01:16.050 align:middle line:90% So I'll read those two. 00:01:16.050 --> 00:01:19.445 align:middle line:90% 00:01:19.445 --> 00:01:19.945 align:middle line:90% "Ivory." 00:01:19.945 --> 00:01:23.230 align:middle line:90% 00:01:23.230 --> 00:01:26.560 align:middle line:84% She belongs to nobody but herself. 00:01:26.560 --> 00:01:30.670 align:middle line:84% But hands in the air for breeding of bloodlines. 00:01:30.670 --> 00:01:37.030 align:middle line:84% Back closure, a suture of pearls on white twine, jewels nestled. 00:01:37.030 --> 00:01:41.470 align:middle line:84% Good in the flesh is her wealth, laced over shoulders 00:01:41.470 --> 00:01:43.180 align:middle line:90% by the hand stealth. 00:01:43.180 --> 00:01:47.740 align:middle line:84% Lift a glass of red, white, or lift the brine. 00:01:47.740 --> 00:01:51.410 align:middle line:84% When she wears it, she's everyone's child. 00:01:51.410 --> 00:01:55.960 align:middle line:90% Fine, new, protected, free. 00:01:55.960 --> 00:02:00.070 align:middle line:84% Believe in her health and what is sewn beyond me. 00:02:00.070 --> 00:02:01.690 align:middle line:90% Know her crown. 00:02:01.690 --> 00:02:02.980 align:middle line:90% The two live it. 00:02:02.980 --> 00:02:07.600 align:middle line:84% The route it takes down her back, spotless as a future. 00:02:07.600 --> 00:02:09.430 align:middle line:90% Oh, this gown. 00:02:09.430 --> 00:02:12.640 align:middle line:84% Even the home she is leaving is not pure. 00:02:12.640 --> 00:02:15.820 align:middle line:84% Not the one she headed to, just her brown. 00:02:15.820 --> 00:02:18.280 align:middle line:90% Her train endless as a field. 00:02:18.280 --> 00:02:19.240 align:middle line:90% Secure. 00:02:19.240 --> 00:02:21.340 align:middle line:90% Let garment run for miles. 00:02:21.340 --> 00:02:23.500 align:middle line:90% Love is a town. 00:02:23.500 --> 00:02:24.000 align:middle line:90%