WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.240 align:middle line:90% 00:00:03.240 --> 00:00:06.810 align:middle line:84% So I'll finish with some short poems 00:00:06.810 --> 00:00:09.210 align:middle line:84% from a project I've been working on that I've 00:00:09.210 --> 00:00:10.500 align:middle line:90% been calling Warblers. 00:00:10.500 --> 00:00:13.920 align:middle line:90% And this is a procedural series. 00:00:13.920 --> 00:00:16.860 align:middle line:90% I made certain rules for myself. 00:00:16.860 --> 00:00:18.310 align:middle line:84% And the warblers, as you may know, 00:00:18.310 --> 00:00:21.690 align:middle line:84% are those little species, little birds that migrate through 00:00:21.690 --> 00:00:22.617 align:middle line:90% in the springtime. 00:00:22.617 --> 00:00:24.450 align:middle line:84% And you don't have so many of them down here 00:00:24.450 --> 00:00:26.880 align:middle line:84% but back East it's a flood that come through in the spring 00:00:26.880 --> 00:00:28.255 align:middle line:84% and they come back in the winter. 00:00:28.255 --> 00:00:31.470 align:middle line:84% And they fly from South America up into the Arctic and back. 00:00:31.470 --> 00:00:34.860 align:middle line:84% Tiny, tiny birds with brilliant coloration 00:00:34.860 --> 00:00:38.160 align:middle line:90% and incredible variety of song. 00:00:38.160 --> 00:00:39.600 align:middle line:90% And they're, kind of, like-- 00:00:39.600 --> 00:00:43.830 align:middle line:84% it's like-- it's like high end birding 00:00:43.830 --> 00:00:45.870 align:middle line:90% if you can spot warblers. 00:00:45.870 --> 00:00:47.700 align:middle line:84% I'm not very good at it but I try. 00:00:47.700 --> 00:00:50.140 align:middle line:84% So the idea was one, I have to meet it. 00:00:50.140 --> 00:00:52.500 align:middle line:84% I have to add that bird to my life list. 00:00:52.500 --> 00:00:54.870 align:middle line:84% It has to have a bit of the bird's color, two. 00:00:54.870 --> 00:00:58.440 align:middle line:84% Three, it has to have a bit of its song in it. 00:00:58.440 --> 00:01:00.300 align:middle line:84% Four, it has to have a bit of its behavior 00:01:00.300 --> 00:01:03.720 align:middle line:84% or its foraging patterns, foraging habits, maybe where it 00:01:03.720 --> 00:01:05.010 align:middle line:90% nests. 00:01:05.010 --> 00:01:06.975 align:middle line:84% Five, it has to have a bit of nonsense. 00:01:06.975 --> 00:01:08.850 align:middle line:84% Warblers are high in the trees, they give you 00:01:08.850 --> 00:01:10.590 align:middle line:90% a crick in your neck, you know. 00:01:10.590 --> 00:01:12.450 align:middle line:90% They're hard to spot. 00:01:12.450 --> 00:01:15.630 align:middle line:84% And the thing I added, after the first couple of them, 00:01:15.630 --> 00:01:18.582 align:middle line:84% was a third, fifth, sixth constraint was that they had 00:01:18.582 --> 00:01:20.040 align:middle line:84% to have embedded in them-- actually 00:01:20.040 --> 00:01:22.710 align:middle line:84% no the sixth one is they have to have a faraway place name 00:01:22.710 --> 00:01:24.520 align:middle line:90% in them, where they come from. 00:01:24.520 --> 00:01:26.070 align:middle line:84% And then seventh, would be they had 00:01:26.070 --> 00:01:28.557 align:middle line:84% to have a word from a poet writing South 00:01:28.557 --> 00:01:30.390 align:middle line:84% of the border and a word from a poet writing 00:01:30.390 --> 00:01:31.223 align:middle line:90% North of the border. 00:01:31.223 --> 00:01:34.530 align:middle line:84% They're feeding on language both North and South of the border. 00:01:34.530 --> 00:01:38.160 align:middle line:84% And so putting these other poets into conversation. 00:01:38.160 --> 00:01:40.110 align:middle line:90% So they go by, kind of, quickly. 00:01:40.110 --> 00:01:41.370 align:middle line:90% You can just enjoy the sounds. 00:01:41.370 --> 00:01:44.530 align:middle line:90% 00:01:44.530 --> 00:01:45.640 align:middle line:90% Don't blink. 00:01:45.640 --> 00:01:47.890 align:middle line:90% "Black and White Warbler." 00:01:47.890 --> 00:01:49.120 align:middle line:90% Scrapes on Lima. 00:01:49.120 --> 00:01:51.880 align:middle line:90% Pointers down on insect toes. 00:01:51.880 --> 00:01:55.630 align:middle line:84% Flicks zebra barks for juices, icies. 00:01:55.630 --> 00:01:57.520 align:middle line:90% Eye sees icy heat. 00:01:57.520 --> 00:02:02.280 align:middle line:84% Sees large gunmetal orca cleans up shady shades.