WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.340 align:middle line:90% 00:00:02.340 --> 00:00:05.110 align:middle line:84% I happen to have the good fortune -- 00:00:05.110 --> 00:00:05.610 align:middle line:90% Sheila. 00:00:05.610 --> 00:00:06.260 align:middle line:90% Yes, [INAUDIBLE]. 00:00:06.260 --> 00:00:07.680 align:middle line:84% You might want to put that in your pocket just so it 00:00:07.680 --> 00:00:07.960 align:middle line:90% doesn't-- 00:00:07.960 --> 00:00:08.790 align:middle line:90% Oh, you're right. 00:00:08.790 --> 00:00:11.010 align:middle line:84% It could just traipse off and wind up -- 00:00:11.010 --> 00:00:12.240 align:middle line:90% Thank you. 00:00:12.240 --> 00:00:14.010 align:middle line:90% This is a pantoum. 00:00:14.010 --> 00:00:17.190 align:middle line:84% It's called "Fraser Island Pantoum" about a sand island 00:00:17.190 --> 00:00:20.220 align:middle line:90% in Queensland, Australia. 00:00:20.220 --> 00:00:23.130 align:middle line:84% And you know a pantoum is lines two and four-- 00:00:23.130 --> 00:00:27.510 align:middle line:84% sorry, lines 2 and 4 become lines 1 and 3 in the succeeding 00:00:27.510 --> 00:00:31.830 align:middle line:84% quatrain and on it rolls into perhaps infinity 00:00:31.830 --> 00:00:34.470 align:middle line:84% were it not for the end is my beginning 00:00:34.470 --> 00:00:39.090 align:middle line:84% thing with the first line becoming the last. 00:00:39.090 --> 00:00:41.640 align:middle line:90% "Fraser Island Pantoum. 00:00:41.640 --> 00:00:44.520 align:middle line:84% Random fluctuations of the wind gift 00:00:44.520 --> 00:00:48.420 align:middle line:84% eloquence to land, extract gel blue cadenzas 00:00:48.420 --> 00:00:50.220 align:middle line:90% from sans midnight. 00:00:50.220 --> 00:00:54.000 align:middle line:84% In my heart versus in sleep there is no winter. 00:00:54.000 --> 00:00:56.820 align:middle line:84% All the trinket birds desist from leavening 00:00:56.820 --> 00:00:59.820 align:middle line:90% my theoring sense of sight. 00:00:59.820 --> 00:01:04.140 align:middle line:84% Extract gel blue cadenzas from sans midnight. 00:01:04.140 --> 00:01:07.350 align:middle line:84% Stamina becomes the consummate attention. 00:01:07.350 --> 00:01:10.740 align:middle line:84% All the trinket birds desist from leavening my hearing 00:01:10.740 --> 00:01:13.950 align:middle line:84% sense of sight while dingoes lope along 00:01:13.950 --> 00:01:16.380 align:middle line:90% the beach with reputations. 00:01:16.380 --> 00:01:19.530 align:middle line:84% Stamina becomes the consummate attention. 00:01:19.530 --> 00:01:24.600 align:middle line:84% In motion, reciprocity spirals an infinity of madness. 00:01:24.600 --> 00:01:28.200 align:middle line:84% Dingoes lope along the beach with reputations. 00:01:28.200 --> 00:01:31.650 align:middle line:84% I am a sotto voce city girl at rest. 00:01:31.650 --> 00:01:38.100 align:middle line:84% In motion, reciprocity spirals an infinity of magnets. 00:01:38.100 --> 00:01:40.380 align:middle line:84% Moments between myself and anyone 00:01:40.380 --> 00:01:42.510 align:middle line:90% begin within repeat signs. 00:01:42.510 --> 00:01:45.990 align:middle line:84% I am a sotto voce city girl at rest. 00:01:45.990 --> 00:01:50.940 align:middle line:84% Scribbles on gum trees speak to me in fluent seeds. 00:01:50.940 --> 00:01:53.490 align:middle line:84% Moments between myself and anyone 00:01:53.490 --> 00:01:55.620 align:middle line:90% begin within repeat signs. 00:01:55.620 --> 00:01:59.070 align:middle line:84% Rust shows muscle as the flesh of flowers. 00:01:59.070 --> 00:02:03.060 align:middle line:84% Scribbles on gum trees speak to me in fluent seeds. 00:02:03.060 --> 00:02:07.560 align:middle line:84% What following protection of the woods is left to flow. 00:02:07.560 --> 00:02:11.490 align:middle line:84% Rust shows muscle as the flesh of flowers. 00:02:11.490 --> 00:02:14.010 align:middle line:84% We have left sentences with ships in them 00:02:14.010 --> 00:02:16.440 align:middle line:90% where water seams the sand. 00:02:16.440 --> 00:02:20.190 align:middle line:84% What following protection of the woods is left to flow. 00:02:20.190 --> 00:02:24.000 align:middle line:84% Seeds flush with nourishment or poison. 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:26.310 align:middle line:84% We have left sentences with ships in them 00:02:26.310 --> 00:02:28.440 align:middle line:90% where water seams the sand. 00:02:28.440 --> 00:02:31.650 align:middle line:84% It is our nature to be rich in relaxation. 00:02:31.650 --> 00:02:35.190 align:middle line:84% Seeds flush with nourishment or poison. 00:02:35.190 --> 00:02:38.580 align:middle line:84% Quandongs simplify into a currency. 00:02:38.580 --> 00:02:42.030 align:middle line:84% It is our nature to be rich in relaxation. 00:02:42.030 --> 00:02:44.460 align:middle line:90% Sand blows our found poems. 00:02:44.460 --> 00:02:48.900 align:middle line:84% Quandongs simplify into a currency as satinés confirms 00:02:48.900 --> 00:02:52.050 align:middle line:90% sweet views beyond scrub lands. 00:02:52.050 --> 00:02:54.390 align:middle line:90% Sand blows our found poems. 00:02:54.390 --> 00:02:57.300 align:middle line:84% We sculpt ephemera into relationships 00:02:57.300 --> 00:03:01.890 align:middle line:84% as satines confirms sweet views beyond scrub lands. 00:03:01.890 --> 00:03:04.980 align:middle line:84% A turquoise color strains unwanted thought 00:03:04.980 --> 00:03:07.800 align:middle line:90% for near physical infinity. 00:03:07.800 --> 00:03:11.040 align:middle line:84% We sculpt ephemera into relationships. 00:03:11.040 --> 00:03:14.550 align:middle line:84% In my heart versus in sleep there is no winter. 00:03:14.550 --> 00:03:18.160 align:middle line:84% A turquoise color strains unwanted thought 00:03:18.160 --> 00:03:20.520 align:middle line:90% for near physical infinity. 00:03:20.520 --> 00:03:26.160 align:middle line:84% Random fluctuations of the wind gift eloquence to land." 00:03:26.160 --> 00:03:29.500 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:03:29.500 --> 00:03:30.000 align:middle line:90%