WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.490 align:middle line:90% 00:00:01.490 --> 00:00:04.130 align:middle line:84% I put the newer poems in the front of the book and the older 00:00:04.130 --> 00:00:06.770 align:middle line:90% poems in the back of the book. 00:00:06.770 --> 00:00:08.780 align:middle line:84% Some of you might ask me why I did that. 00:00:08.780 --> 00:00:11.490 align:middle line:90% Don't know. 00:00:11.490 --> 00:00:13.200 align:middle line:84% So I'll now go to the front of the book. 00:00:13.200 --> 00:00:19.620 align:middle line:90% 00:00:19.620 --> 00:00:21.030 align:middle line:90% The first dilemma has appeared. 00:00:21.030 --> 00:00:25.777 align:middle line:90% 00:00:25.777 --> 00:00:27.360 align:middle line:84% I want to read you some new poems too. 00:00:27.360 --> 00:00:30.150 align:middle line:84% So it's whether I go all the way beyond the front of the book 00:00:30.150 --> 00:00:33.180 align:middle line:84% to the new poems and come back to the book, you'll see, 00:00:33.180 --> 00:00:36.285 align:middle line:84% or whether I go to the book and then to the new poems. 00:00:36.285 --> 00:00:40.110 align:middle line:90% 00:00:40.110 --> 00:00:41.235 align:middle line:90% You're all looking nervous. 00:00:41.235 --> 00:00:43.910 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:00:43.910 --> 00:00:44.715 align:middle line:90% That's how I relax. 00:00:44.715 --> 00:00:45.840 align:middle line:90% It's just a poetry reading. 00:00:45.840 --> 00:00:50.432 align:middle line:90% 00:00:50.432 --> 00:00:52.890 align:middle line:84% And I want to have time to read you the new poems, you see, 00:00:52.890 --> 00:00:55.620 align:middle line:84% so I'm worried I'll run out of time if I 00:00:55.620 --> 00:00:56.912 align:middle line:90% read too many of the old poems. 00:00:56.912 --> 00:00:59.370 align:middle line:84% I'll read some of the old poems, then some of the new ones, 00:00:59.370 --> 00:01:01.380 align:middle line:84% and then maybe I'll go back to the old poems. 00:01:01.380 --> 00:01:04.485 align:middle line:84% "The aroma of the uninhabited yes." 00:01:04.485 --> 00:01:07.310 align:middle line:90% 00:01:07.310 --> 00:01:09.920 align:middle line:84% "And here, an exaggerated arc, see 00:01:09.920 --> 00:01:13.550 align:middle line:84% how its grin exceeds the joke and the featherweight drama 00:01:13.550 --> 00:01:17.150 align:middle line:84% liability of the newly wet swelling the planks. 00:01:17.150 --> 00:01:20.690 align:middle line:84% The list, old among numbers, could be six, seven. 00:01:20.690 --> 00:01:23.480 align:middle line:84% Among these, it could be ideology skulking 00:01:23.480 --> 00:01:24.800 align:middle line:90% at the corner of an age. 00:01:24.800 --> 00:01:28.190 align:middle line:84% Star struck, emulating, singing along with the tune. 00:01:28.190 --> 00:01:31.430 align:middle line:84% That smell of sweet perfume among numbers 00:01:31.430 --> 00:01:34.040 align:middle line:84% filtered into the humid high summer air. 00:01:34.040 --> 00:01:37.700 align:middle line:84% Mouth open, lips in sync, and the question comes up 00:01:37.700 --> 00:01:40.700 align:middle line:90% dropped into the street below. 00:01:40.700 --> 00:01:43.790 align:middle line:84% It could be Caravaggio or the fleshy belief 00:01:43.790 --> 00:01:46.670 align:middle line:84% he inscribed, dense affiliation of desire. 00:01:46.670 --> 00:01:49.370 align:middle line:84% And so, a mythic arrangement is in order 00:01:49.370 --> 00:01:53.990 align:middle line:84% here among these numbers, a story decision on the back lot. 00:01:53.990 --> 00:01:57.710 align:middle line:84% So he comes toward her and says, would you 00:01:57.710 --> 00:01:59.330 align:middle line:90% have a look at this script? 00:01:59.330 --> 00:02:00.890 align:middle line:90% Could you cut my hair? 00:02:00.890 --> 00:02:03.650 align:middle line:84% Would you mind lowering the shade? 00:02:03.650 --> 00:02:08.729 align:middle line:84% The answer, the direction of the first bed, the task. 00:02:08.729 --> 00:02:10.669 align:middle line:90% And now look, far is near. 00:02:10.669 --> 00:02:14.420 align:middle line:84% Next door is another century whose shape reconfigures 00:02:14.420 --> 00:02:16.610 align:middle line:90% the typography of care. 00:02:16.610 --> 00:02:19.640 align:middle line:84% It seems possible to notice a harem gathering 00:02:19.640 --> 00:02:22.460 align:middle line:84% around the stump, wearing boas and slacks, 00:02:22.460 --> 00:02:24.590 align:middle line:90% whispering into the dust. 00:02:24.590 --> 00:02:27.170 align:middle line:90% Shall we address their dilemma? 00:02:27.170 --> 00:02:30.290 align:middle line:84% The anticipated part is only part of the assignment. 00:02:30.290 --> 00:02:33.290 align:middle line:84% Part two is the repeated motif of law. 00:02:33.290 --> 00:02:37.070 align:middle line:84% The nurse said be prepared, strip. 00:02:37.070 --> 00:02:39.080 align:middle line:84% And we thought, given this premise, 00:02:39.080 --> 00:02:42.710 align:middle line:84% that she had seen the thing slain and the unshared part 00:02:42.710 --> 00:02:46.670 align:middle line:84% dealt out among strangers, those in the park, those on the boat, 00:02:46.670 --> 00:02:49.460 align:middle line:90% a few wandering across a bridge. 00:02:49.460 --> 00:02:53.060 align:middle line:84% But this never happens in the city, only usual begetting 00:02:53.060 --> 00:02:55.640 align:middle line:90% as the slant bends into a curl. 00:02:55.640 --> 00:02:58.760 align:middle line:84% The curl, a parenthetical remark or eyelash 00:02:58.760 --> 00:03:00.530 align:middle line:90% on the pillow of dawn. 00:03:00.530 --> 00:03:03.830 align:middle line:84% Riots in the Capitol, Europe destroyed 00:03:03.830 --> 00:03:05.990 align:middle line:90% under its canopy of culture. 00:03:05.990 --> 00:03:08.990 align:middle line:84% This moves across the threshold into that, 00:03:08.990 --> 00:03:12.590 align:middle line:84% because the wind's fitful economy parts only 00:03:12.590 --> 00:03:15.500 align:middle line:84% debris laying claim to the moment, 00:03:15.500 --> 00:03:21.360 align:middle line:84% as if it were a lucky number pulled from a hat." 00:03:21.360 --> 00:03:22.310 align:middle line:90% [WHISTLE] 00:03:22.310 --> 00:03:23.735 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:03:23.735 --> 00:03:25.635 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:03:25.635 --> 00:03:26.680 align:middle line:90% You're so sweet. 00:03:26.680 --> 00:03:28.762 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:03:28.762 --> 00:03:31.480 align:middle line:90% 00:03:31.480 --> 00:03:32.380 align:middle line:90% Be careful. 00:03:32.380 --> 00:03:33.790 align:middle line:90% I could stay here a long time. 00:03:33.790 --> 00:03:35.176 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:03:35.176 --> 00:03:35.868 align:middle line:90% 00:03:35.868 --> 00:03:38.410 align:middle line:84% Well, there was a request for this poem, which I wasn't going 00:03:38.410 --> 00:03:40.330 align:middle line:90% to read, but I love requests. 00:03:40.330 --> 00:03:46.630 align:middle line:84% My fantasy self is a chanteuse in a dark bar. 00:03:46.630 --> 00:03:53.260 align:middle line:84% And somebody in the back, "read "Melancholy Baby." 00:03:53.260 --> 00:03:54.130 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:03:54.130 --> 00:03:55.090 align:middle line:90% That's really what I-- 00:03:55.090 --> 00:03:58.360 align:middle line:84% I'm always dreaming of this moment when somebody calls out, 00:03:58.360 --> 00:03:59.710 align:middle line:90% and it hasn't happened yet. 00:03:59.710 --> 00:04:03.007 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:04:03.007 --> 00:04:07.720 align:middle line:90% 00:04:07.720 --> 00:04:10.210 align:middle line:84% Actually, it has happened, when I've coerced it. 00:04:10.210 --> 00:04:13.900 align:middle line:90% 00:04:13.900 --> 00:04:17.140 align:middle line:84% So Alison, for you, I'm going to read "Walk." 00:04:17.140 --> 00:04:19.959 align:middle line:84% There's a set of poems in here that were-- 00:04:19.959 --> 00:04:27.010 align:middle line:84% some people in Santa Fe got a lot of people 00:04:27.010 --> 00:04:29.450 align:middle line:84% together to do something called the Millennium Project, 00:04:29.450 --> 00:04:31.480 align:middle line:84% which I think has actually been renamed. 00:04:31.480 --> 00:04:34.630 align:middle line:84% And I was asked to contribute to the Millennium Project, which 00:04:34.630 --> 00:04:37.900 align:middle line:84% sounded very dark and something slightly Republican 00:04:37.900 --> 00:04:38.500 align:middle line:90% to me, but-- 00:04:38.500 --> 00:04:39.895 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:04:39.895 --> 00:04:42.690 align:middle line:90% 00:04:42.690 --> 00:04:43.380 align:middle line:90% No offense. 00:04:43.380 --> 00:04:45.750 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:04:45.750 --> 00:04:47.790 align:middle line:84% But anyway, I didn't really know what 00:04:47.790 --> 00:04:50.160 align:middle line:84% to do with this idea of the Millennium Project. 00:04:50.160 --> 00:04:54.330 align:middle line:84% So I just sent them all the work I'd done in the last year. 00:04:54.330 --> 00:04:58.020 align:middle line:84% And so there's a bunch of them in here. 00:04:58.020 --> 00:05:03.450 align:middle line:84% And one of them is "Walk," which is really a prose poem. 00:05:03.450 --> 00:05:05.400 align:middle line:84% It's more prose than it is poetry. 00:05:05.400 --> 00:05:08.520 align:middle line:84% "Mistakenly on the other side's side, walking along, 00:05:08.520 --> 00:05:13.200 align:middle line:84% thinking this must be change, this discomfort, walking on-- 00:05:13.200 --> 00:05:17.160 align:middle line:84% walking as on an island, the mausoleum across the yard. 00:05:17.160 --> 00:05:20.040 align:middle line:84% Thus, a span, uncluttered, available, the dark. 00:05:20.040 --> 00:05:23.400 align:middle line:84% The dark yard's discomfort, the breeze withheld, 00:05:23.400 --> 00:05:26.430 align:middle line:84% picturing and then being the picture, the still. 00:05:26.430 --> 00:05:30.240 align:middle line:84% A red tugboat trolling near the dam, the dramatist walking 00:05:30.240 --> 00:05:32.100 align:middle line:90% by the taxi, no one waves. 00:05:32.100 --> 00:05:36.120 align:middle line:84% Here we accumulate, one, two, among. 00:05:36.120 --> 00:05:38.100 align:middle line:84% There were, of course, too many stories 00:05:38.100 --> 00:05:42.000 align:middle line:84% yoked to the original, too many collisions under the scaffold. 00:05:42.000 --> 00:05:45.240 align:middle line:84% What we thought about seeped back under the foundation, 00:05:45.240 --> 00:05:48.270 align:middle line:84% to become itself a kind of mud, luminous at night, 00:05:48.270 --> 00:05:50.130 align:middle line:90% during the quiet night ride. 00:05:50.130 --> 00:05:52.950 align:middle line:84% We were in the uncomfortable stage, the eighth month, 00:05:52.950 --> 00:05:55.050 align:middle line:90% its enormity a kind of pathos. 00:05:55.050 --> 00:05:57.630 align:middle line:84% The garden bloated beyond enchantment. 00:05:57.630 --> 00:05:59.790 align:middle line:84% Over there, across the bridge, another group 00:05:59.790 --> 00:06:02.820 align:middle line:84% gathered, spying on the generations, summing them up. 00:06:02.820 --> 00:06:04.110 align:middle line:90% Right, they attested. 00:06:04.110 --> 00:06:04.920 align:middle line:90% Sure enough. 00:06:04.920 --> 00:06:07.575 align:middle line:84% Nobody had time to vote, and those that did, 00:06:07.575 --> 00:06:12.510 align:middle line:84% did for reasons only the Op-Ed understood. 00:06:12.510 --> 00:06:15.750 align:middle line:84% They were testing our right to continue. 00:06:15.750 --> 00:06:18.390 align:middle line:90% We pretended to know. 00:06:18.390 --> 00:06:22.740 align:middle line:84% But then there was the uncontaminated filigree 00:06:22.740 --> 00:06:25.740 align:middle line:84% of skin, youthful through an extra pair of glasses, 00:06:25.740 --> 00:06:29.220 align:middle line:84% classically wide-eyed, the world as yet undiminished 00:06:29.220 --> 00:06:32.040 align:middle line:84% by the burden of its authors, that old hymn. 00:06:32.040 --> 00:06:32.880 align:middle line:90% Remember? 00:06:32.880 --> 00:06:35.550 align:middle line:84% Among the disenfranchised, nothing stirred, 00:06:35.550 --> 00:06:38.550 align:middle line:84% and the silt went easily over the new spillway. 00:06:38.550 --> 00:06:41.070 align:middle line:84% And the moon extended her rites of passage 00:06:41.070 --> 00:06:44.280 align:middle line:90% down into the aurora. 00:06:44.280 --> 00:06:46.980 align:middle line:84% Not belonging was a kind of errancy, 00:06:46.980 --> 00:06:53.010 align:middle line:84% a bluff seen by others as a refusal without implications. 00:06:53.010 --> 00:06:55.710 align:middle line:84% In the room, there were small movable tables. 00:06:55.710 --> 00:06:58.020 align:middle line:84% In the room, there was a pair of shoes. 00:06:58.020 --> 00:07:00.240 align:middle line:84% In the room, there was a book on the floor. 00:07:00.240 --> 00:07:02.460 align:middle line:84% In the room, certain things were missing. 00:07:02.460 --> 00:07:04.380 align:middle line:84% In the room, there were no mirrors. 00:07:04.380 --> 00:07:08.010 align:middle line:84% The radio's episodic dial, bourgeois affinities 00:07:08.010 --> 00:07:09.750 align:middle line:90% of the newly polished leather. 00:07:09.750 --> 00:07:13.440 align:middle line:84% The writer in exile speaks candidly 00:07:13.440 --> 00:07:15.570 align:middle line:90% to the reporter eating nuts. 00:07:15.570 --> 00:07:17.160 align:middle line:90% Modernism ends. 00:07:17.160 --> 00:07:19.050 align:middle line:90% In the room, music went on. 00:07:19.050 --> 00:07:21.030 align:middle line:84% In the room, a table was replaced. 00:07:21.030 --> 00:07:22.470 align:middle line:90% It was not a museum. 00:07:22.470 --> 00:07:26.730 align:middle line:84% A flag fell across a stamp, unpleasant expenditure, 00:07:26.730 --> 00:07:30.915 align:middle line:84% body odors, tears, new regulations, undoing privacy. 00:07:30.915 --> 00:07:33.930 align:middle line:90% 00:07:33.930 --> 00:07:37.740 align:middle line:84% Saturday, Lake Committee meeting, call from Martin. 00:07:37.740 --> 00:07:40.200 align:middle line:84% Second call from Martin, no number. 00:07:40.200 --> 00:07:43.800 align:middle line:84% Joan's scent in the hallway, Rick's unhappiness 00:07:43.800 --> 00:07:44.970 align:middle line:90% with what he wrote. 00:07:44.970 --> 00:07:47.910 align:middle line:84% Second book received with compliments of the author 00:07:47.910 --> 00:07:49.320 align:middle line:90% on a printed card. 00:07:49.320 --> 00:07:53.400 align:middle line:84% Torrential rain, first parking ticket, call from David, 00:07:53.400 --> 00:07:57.450 align:middle line:84% call from another David, call from Thomas, full moon. 00:07:57.450 --> 00:08:00.390 align:middle line:84% Small yellow pill, small red pill, 00:08:00.390 --> 00:08:04.080 align:middle line:84% note from Elaine mentioning J Crew, refusal 00:08:04.080 --> 00:08:06.480 align:middle line:90% to stay in room 205. 00:08:06.480 --> 00:08:09.210 align:middle line:84% Aggressive male child in the park, 00:08:09.210 --> 00:08:11.550 align:middle line:90% Marianne quotes Rene Char. 00:08:11.550 --> 00:08:16.620 align:middle line:84% Idea of prose, George and Mary sailing, sincerity and sailing, 00:08:16.620 --> 00:08:17.460 align:middle line:90% a remark. 00:08:17.460 --> 00:08:22.140 align:middle line:84% Lilacs, lost wax, cookery, genius as economy 00:08:22.140 --> 00:08:26.130 align:middle line:84% without waste, pictures without captions, pictures of persons 00:08:26.130 --> 00:08:28.410 align:middle line:90% without names. 00:08:28.410 --> 00:08:30.930 align:middle line:84% To excerpt the ordinary from splendor, 00:08:30.930 --> 00:08:34.049 align:middle line:84% the affluent cloister, trapped in a small luminous 00:08:34.049 --> 00:08:37.230 align:middle line:84% box in which everyone knows everyone else. 00:08:37.230 --> 00:08:39.360 align:middle line:84% Could drop some names from the glossary, 00:08:39.360 --> 00:08:41.940 align:middle line:84% delete a few consummations while dressed 00:08:41.940 --> 00:08:44.250 align:middle line:84% in fatigues, the fatigue of need, 00:08:44.250 --> 00:08:47.970 align:middle line:84% the accepted norm, sorrow and reality, the loved person 00:08:47.970 --> 00:08:50.460 align:middle line:84% dying, the leaves lapsed, drawn forward 00:08:50.460 --> 00:08:52.830 align:middle line:84% with autumn's litany of perishables, 00:08:52.830 --> 00:08:58.740 align:middle line:84% book bags, shirts without monograms, the if-then date. 00:08:58.740 --> 00:09:00.600 align:middle line:90% Is it wise to abstain? 00:09:00.600 --> 00:09:03.720 align:middle line:84% Such is the city's grail that the hum is expansive, 00:09:03.720 --> 00:09:06.930 align:middle line:84% shorn from prevailing silence and entrails of light. 00:09:06.930 --> 00:09:10.500 align:middle line:84% Crave thee this dialogue, this touch? 00:09:10.500 --> 00:09:13.080 align:middle line:90% Is an allegory of-- 00:09:13.080 --> 00:09:15.840 align:middle line:90% let's walk a little into it. 00:09:15.840 --> 00:09:21.480 align:middle line:84% David says, that generation had something we lack, a calm mind. 00:09:21.480 --> 00:09:25.260 align:middle line:84% David says, perhaps only those from another country 00:09:25.260 --> 00:09:28.620 align:middle line:84% can combine the rhetoric of feeling with-- 00:09:28.620 --> 00:09:29.940 align:middle line:90% I have forgotten the rest." 00:09:29.940 --> 00:09:34.355 align:middle line:90% 00:09:34.355 --> 00:09:34.855 align:middle line:90% "Legacy." 00:09:34.855 --> 00:09:38.740 align:middle line:90% 00:09:38.740 --> 00:09:44.050 align:middle line:84% "I am thinking again of drab fly cycles, roof numb-- 00:09:44.050 --> 00:09:48.580 align:middle line:84% I am thinking again of drab fly cycles, roof mumbling 00:09:48.580 --> 00:09:51.490 align:middle line:84% harmony, up in attics beyond deliberation. 00:09:51.490 --> 00:09:52.810 align:middle line:90% I am stunned. 00:09:52.810 --> 00:09:55.030 align:middle line:84% Young man, you have ruined this phase. 00:09:55.030 --> 00:09:57.340 align:middle line:84% I am thinking the window is rotted, 00:09:57.340 --> 00:09:59.560 align:middle line:84% and the flies are crafting their music 00:09:59.560 --> 00:10:02.740 align:middle line:84% under a single nude, seen thither and yon 00:10:02.740 --> 00:10:05.860 align:middle line:84% in as many particulars, the alert dust, 00:10:05.860 --> 00:10:08.230 align:middle line:90% the carefree bonanza of a city. 00:10:08.230 --> 00:10:11.080 align:middle line:84% Waiting in the dark by the side of everything, 00:10:11.080 --> 00:10:14.650 align:middle line:84% paused under a shaft, little pool of blood on the curb, 00:10:14.650 --> 00:10:18.310 align:middle line:84% pink discrepancy of what we imagined was terror. 00:10:18.310 --> 00:10:22.900 align:middle line:84% Then going on into the hills beyond the mall's crude angles, 00:10:22.900 --> 00:10:26.650 align:middle line:84% road stretched, counting the characters not yet proven, 00:10:26.650 --> 00:10:29.860 align:middle line:84% not sold, not released into what we had seen. 00:10:29.860 --> 00:10:32.575 align:middle line:84% Old visitor, hawk, I am waving goodbye. 00:10:32.575 --> 00:10:35.170 align:middle line:90% 00:10:35.170 --> 00:10:40.630 align:middle line:84% Shadow range, ekphrastic renovation of a spoon. 00:10:40.630 --> 00:10:45.100 align:middle line:84% Without shelter, the thing delighted is kept. 00:10:45.100 --> 00:10:48.700 align:middle line:84% To follow the once that once said was. 00:10:48.700 --> 00:10:51.520 align:middle line:84% Inscribed on the tongue to ask from the margin, 00:10:51.520 --> 00:10:53.770 align:middle line:84% will you come to the incidents call? 00:10:53.770 --> 00:10:54.880 align:middle line:90% Open the blinds. 00:10:54.880 --> 00:10:56.800 align:middle line:90% Spill sun in his mouth. 00:10:56.800 --> 00:11:00.490 align:middle line:84% Hope's flagrant shine cast back to its arbor. 00:11:00.490 --> 00:11:03.730 align:middle line:84% Stain on the dress, new $20 bill, 00:11:03.730 --> 00:11:06.370 align:middle line:84% malleable space on a page of trials, 00:11:06.370 --> 00:11:09.430 align:middle line:84% clairvoyant current under the paved, clues 00:11:09.430 --> 00:11:12.460 align:middle line:84% to the meaning in the feathers of slang. 00:11:12.460 --> 00:11:17.530 align:middle line:84% Passing a note from fever to ash. 00:11:17.530 --> 00:11:21.820 align:middle line:84% Yes, and here distributed as acronyms for praise, 00:11:21.820 --> 00:11:23.830 align:middle line:90% small attributes here. 00:11:23.830 --> 00:11:26.080 align:middle line:84% All along the way, as if marshaled, 00:11:26.080 --> 00:11:28.630 align:middle line:84% testimony calibrated under the horn, 00:11:28.630 --> 00:11:32.260 align:middle line:84% so that we had seen in a leaf the Spartan vagary 00:11:32.260 --> 00:11:35.410 align:middle line:84% of time, its credentials, here, lasting 00:11:35.410 --> 00:11:37.180 align:middle line:84% under the last permission sought, 00:11:37.180 --> 00:11:39.850 align:middle line:84% its style coming round as a decision 00:11:39.850 --> 00:11:43.060 align:middle line:90% to stay one or three days, here. 00:11:43.060 --> 00:11:46.270 align:middle line:84% Not as the recuperating genius of an age, 00:11:46.270 --> 00:11:50.710 align:middle line:84% not as the swooning female, not as the hieroglyph bomb, 00:11:50.710 --> 00:11:52.960 align:middle line:90% but to ask, who is here? 00:11:52.960 --> 00:11:54.790 align:middle line:90% Who's speaking? 00:11:54.790 --> 00:11:58.420 align:middle line:84% Mr Predictable Rage and Ms Predictable Doubt 00:11:58.420 --> 00:12:00.130 align:middle line:90% dance the Predictable Rag. 00:12:00.130 --> 00:12:03.280 align:middle line:90% 00:12:03.280 --> 00:12:08.140 align:middle line:84% Excessive and volatile, from which all detail is omitted, 00:12:08.140 --> 00:12:09.490 align:middle line:90% film me in costume. 00:12:09.490 --> 00:12:11.710 align:middle line:90% I want to be a soldier. 00:12:11.710 --> 00:12:15.250 align:middle line:84% We went to the local store in search of thread. 00:12:15.250 --> 00:12:17.740 align:middle line:84% That is all I recall of childhood." 00:12:17.740 --> 00:12:28.807 align:middle line:90% 00:12:28.807 --> 00:12:30.640 align:middle line:84% And there's always the possibility of opera. 00:12:30.640 --> 00:12:39.150 align:middle line:90% 00:12:39.150 --> 00:12:41.833 align:middle line:84% This is "The Call--" you've probably figured out by now, 00:12:41.833 --> 00:12:43.500 align:middle line:84% if you're trying to figure out anything, 00:12:43.500 --> 00:12:53.190 align:middle line:84% that these poems are generated from a lot of different places. 00:12:53.190 --> 00:12:54.840 align:middle line:84% A lot of poems are, not all poems, 00:12:54.840 --> 00:13:01.890 align:middle line:84% but it seems that I have to discover 00:13:01.890 --> 00:13:06.150 align:middle line:84% a constellation of a sort, or collect materials not even 00:13:06.150 --> 00:13:07.890 align:middle line:90% as fine as a constellation. 00:13:07.890 --> 00:13:11.160 align:middle line:84% It's just an amalgam of stuff, but I'm 00:13:11.160 --> 00:13:12.840 align:middle line:84% very interested in that stuff coming 00:13:12.840 --> 00:13:15.190 align:middle line:90% from a lot of different sources. 00:13:15.190 --> 00:13:18.450 align:middle line:84% And so the poem becomes the occasion 00:13:18.450 --> 00:13:20.640 align:middle line:84% of the result of that stuff but does not 00:13:20.640 --> 00:13:22.340 align:middle line:90% refer back to it particularly. 00:13:22.340 --> 00:13:24.090 align:middle line:84% But every now and then, there is something 00:13:24.090 --> 00:13:26.190 align:middle line:90% that is referred back to. 00:13:26.190 --> 00:13:28.650 align:middle line:84% And I mean, it's sort of buried in it. 00:13:28.650 --> 00:13:32.610 align:middle line:84% And this poem called "The Call" has, in it-- 00:13:32.610 --> 00:13:38.490 align:middle line:84% one piece of it anyway is a painting by Holbein called The 00:13:38.490 --> 00:13:44.520 align:middle line:90% Ambassadors which I saw at the-- 00:13:44.520 --> 00:13:46.210 align:middle line:90% it wasn't the British Museum. 00:13:46.210 --> 00:13:49.950 align:middle line:90% It wasn't at the Tate. 00:13:49.950 --> 00:13:52.880 align:middle line:84% It was the National Gallery in London about-- 00:13:52.880 --> 00:13:54.630 align:middle line:84% I don't know-- four or five years ago now. 00:13:54.630 --> 00:13:57.750 align:middle line:84% And the National Gallery had gotten this painting, 00:13:57.750 --> 00:14:01.380 align:middle line:84% and put it up, and cleaned it, and done a very, very, very 00:14:01.380 --> 00:14:05.160 align:middle line:84% elaborate disquisition on all of its elements. 00:14:05.160 --> 00:14:06.690 align:middle line:90% But it didn't really-- 00:14:06.690 --> 00:14:09.008 align:middle line:84% well, it did need to do that, because they're English, 00:14:09.008 --> 00:14:10.050 align:middle line:90% and they like to do that. 00:14:10.050 --> 00:14:13.017 align:middle line:84% But the thing that was incredible about it is you 00:14:13.017 --> 00:14:14.100 align:middle line:90% walked in, and you saw it. 00:14:14.100 --> 00:14:15.360 align:middle line:90% And the two ambassadors-- 00:14:15.360 --> 00:14:16.735 align:middle line:84% I don't know if you'd know these. 00:14:16.735 --> 00:14:18.600 align:middle line:84% Two ambassadors are absolutely frontal, 00:14:18.600 --> 00:14:20.693 align:middle line:84% and the frontal plane staring out. 00:14:20.693 --> 00:14:22.860 align:middle line:84% The French and the English, they despised each other 00:14:22.860 --> 00:14:24.870 align:middle line:90% then, and even-- 00:14:24.870 --> 00:14:32.940 align:middle line:84% and there's a lot of other very interesting somewhat hermetic, 00:14:32.940 --> 00:14:36.730 align:middle line:84% symbolic things that I can't really begin to think about. 00:14:36.730 --> 00:14:39.480 align:middle line:84% But in the front of the painting is 00:14:39.480 --> 00:14:42.730 align:middle line:84% this object which, when I first saw it, 00:14:42.730 --> 00:14:44.027 align:middle line:90% I actually was frightened. 00:14:44.027 --> 00:14:45.360 align:middle line:90% I didn't understand what it was. 00:14:45.360 --> 00:14:46.652 align:middle line:90% It's a very realistic painting. 00:14:46.652 --> 00:14:47.820 align:middle line:90% Holbein is very realistic. 00:14:47.820 --> 00:14:53.460 align:middle line:84% And so you probably know that it was an anamorphic skull 00:14:53.460 --> 00:14:55.620 align:middle line:84% and anamorphic in the sense that you couldn't 00:14:55.620 --> 00:14:59.805 align:middle line:84% tell it was a skull unless you went to a very particular place 00:14:59.805 --> 00:15:01.680 align:middle line:84% at the edge of the painting and looked at it. 00:15:01.680 --> 00:15:03.210 align:middle line:90% And then it became dimensional. 00:15:03.210 --> 00:15:11.700 align:middle line:84% It's just an astounding piece of a certain kind of relation 00:15:11.700 --> 00:15:17.850 align:middle line:84% to technology, early idea of technology. 00:15:17.850 --> 00:15:22.440 align:middle line:84% Although Holbein is very ambivalent about the rational 00:15:22.440 --> 00:15:26.190 align:middle line:84% it seems to me, which I guess is in some way related 00:15:26.190 --> 00:15:27.090 align:middle line:90% to technology. 00:15:27.090 --> 00:15:29.190 align:middle line:84% Anyway, so there's this skull, and it 00:15:29.190 --> 00:15:32.400 align:middle line:84% looks sort of like a Frisbee being 00:15:32.400 --> 00:15:35.880 align:middle line:84% thrown across the front of this canvas. 00:15:35.880 --> 00:15:36.930 align:middle line:90% So it's in here. 00:15:36.930 --> 00:15:39.500 align:middle line:84% Long introduction, you'll see it for a second in the poem. 00:15:39.500 --> 00:15:41.448 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:15:41.448 --> 00:15:43.890 align:middle line:90% 00:15:43.890 --> 00:15:45.480 align:middle line:90% "The Call." 00:15:45.480 --> 00:15:49.020 align:middle line:84% "Had relinquished the moist tether, arguing the curtains 00:15:49.020 --> 00:15:53.160 align:middle line:84% are spoiled, the car phone calling through new dark, world 00:15:53.160 --> 00:15:57.690 align:middle line:84% scanned into humidity, racing under the floor in torrents, 00:15:57.690 --> 00:15:59.340 align:middle line:90% speculation on elements. 00:15:59.340 --> 00:15:59.850 align:middle line:90% See? 00:15:59.850 --> 00:16:02.460 align:middle line:90% The moth matches the decor. 00:16:02.460 --> 00:16:05.130 align:middle line:84% The call, how it made the roof play 00:16:05.130 --> 00:16:09.840 align:middle line:84% upward out from the skull's itinerary sky heaved, exposed, 00:16:09.840 --> 00:16:12.600 align:middle line:84% so that the grass meandered and the relics blown 00:16:12.600 --> 00:16:15.840 align:middle line:84% from the lips of the sea inscribed the inscription, 00:16:15.840 --> 00:16:16.830 align:middle line:90% we would say. 00:16:16.830 --> 00:16:20.910 align:middle line:84% Calligraphy of the dome of the unknown ceiling, cusp sewn 00:16:20.910 --> 00:16:23.970 align:middle line:84% into moorings at dawn, morphic residue, 00:16:23.970 --> 00:16:27.570 align:middle line:84% holding the soul in its arms, wrapped finger instruction 00:16:27.570 --> 00:16:32.880 align:middle line:84% in stone, passage of the wise, event undisclosed. 00:16:32.880 --> 00:16:35.340 align:middle line:84% What is this dust leaking through a box 00:16:35.340 --> 00:16:36.510 align:middle line:90% at the King's knees? 00:16:36.510 --> 00:16:38.700 align:middle line:90% What is this disastrous blue? 00:16:38.700 --> 00:16:39.960 align:middle line:90% A flower thinking? 00:16:39.960 --> 00:16:41.460 align:middle line:90% The sky reformed? 00:16:41.460 --> 00:16:44.340 align:middle line:84% Can we step through the concatenation of hours? 00:16:44.340 --> 00:16:48.600 align:middle line:84% The will frozen and importuned with objects, dismal Newton 00:16:48.600 --> 00:16:52.980 align:middle line:84% with his fingers engaged, flags edged down from their shelter, 00:16:52.980 --> 00:16:53.970 align:middle line:90% floating. 00:16:53.970 --> 00:16:56.520 align:middle line:84% He has decided to exile the angels, 00:16:56.520 --> 00:17:00.130 align:middle line:84% their false presentation of what comes next. 00:17:00.130 --> 00:17:03.450 align:middle line:84% The gun, however, is prologue to a gun. 00:17:03.450 --> 00:17:05.339 align:middle line:84% Sitting at lunch with the master, 00:17:05.339 --> 00:17:08.250 align:middle line:84% napkin folded over the uneasy patois 00:17:08.250 --> 00:17:12.150 align:middle line:84% of remembrance, the exhibition sparkling into the gray winter 00:17:12.150 --> 00:17:15.810 align:middle line:84% day, painted skull flattened, flung out 00:17:15.810 --> 00:17:20.250 align:middle line:84% into an exactly exaggerated orbit. 00:17:20.250 --> 00:17:22.950 align:middle line:84% In one window, when the curtains are pulled apart, 00:17:22.950 --> 00:17:27.030 align:middle line:84% everything can be read as if through tears a beloved face. 00:17:27.030 --> 00:17:29.940 align:middle line:84% In the other, a cardinal's flight. 00:17:29.940 --> 00:17:31.920 align:middle line:90% These things want to turn-- 00:17:31.920 --> 00:17:35.620 align:middle line:84% want us to turn from the fakery, beckoning its shiny sketch 00:17:35.620 --> 00:17:37.950 align:middle line:90% and programmed to bewitch. 00:17:37.950 --> 00:17:41.970 align:middle line:84% And from the ferry, the Monad Peak keeps terror intact. 00:17:41.970 --> 00:17:46.080 align:middle line:84% And on the plane, a man, his jokes whiplash, woo, woo. 00:17:46.080 --> 00:17:48.360 align:middle line:90% The clouds retreat, woo, woo. 00:17:48.360 --> 00:17:51.450 align:middle line:84% Baffled over its interior into the cycle, 00:17:51.450 --> 00:17:55.980 align:middle line:84% where the golden girl pivots to destruction as if, in glue, 00:17:55.980 --> 00:17:58.560 align:middle line:90% things turn slowly from her. 00:17:58.560 --> 00:18:02.880 align:middle line:84% And here again, as if by accident, curtains, car, 00:18:02.880 --> 00:18:06.750 align:middle line:90% torrents, speculation, nets. 00:18:06.750 --> 00:18:10.320 align:middle line:84% And at night, an immense blue shuffled through the shack 00:18:10.320 --> 00:18:12.870 align:middle line:84% like a feathered wind, and she pushed his name 00:18:12.870 --> 00:18:15.810 align:middle line:84% to the back of the shelf, so it could not be seen. 00:18:15.810 --> 00:18:20.290 align:middle line:84% The blue things agitated, like men in need of work. 00:18:20.290 --> 00:18:23.520 align:middle line:84% These are the workers, he had said, his name spilling 00:18:23.520 --> 00:18:26.460 align:middle line:90% across white linen. 00:18:26.460 --> 00:18:30.900 align:middle line:84% Afterwards, description vanished like fireworks following 00:18:30.900 --> 00:18:32.410 align:middle line:90% the path of disbelief. 00:18:32.410 --> 00:18:35.100 align:middle line:84% The body invisible from its velocity, 00:18:35.100 --> 00:18:38.310 align:middle line:84% but the workers had seen nothing, their heads bent, 00:18:38.310 --> 00:18:40.770 align:middle line:90% shuffling among tents. 00:18:40.770 --> 00:18:44.700 align:middle line:84% Something stuck in her hair, something shot full of holes, 00:18:44.700 --> 00:18:47.340 align:middle line:84% something igniting the minnows under the sea's 00:18:47.340 --> 00:18:53.280 align:middle line:84% bright blister, afterlife of silver, wreckage of bronze. 00:18:53.280 --> 00:18:57.480 align:middle line:84% Now the mouth is closed, because it cannot describe, 00:18:57.480 --> 00:19:02.100 align:middle line:84% because dawn is gouged, because they reached the same language. 00:19:02.100 --> 00:19:06.060 align:middle line:84% Desire is a fold, and repetition its music. 00:19:06.060 --> 00:19:09.360 align:middle line:84% The image collapsed, periphery unsettled. 00:19:09.360 --> 00:19:12.630 align:middle line:84% As in a picture of stars crawling through space, 00:19:12.630 --> 00:19:16.620 align:middle line:84% and the slightly moist thing cast onto the reef 00:19:16.620 --> 00:19:19.800 align:middle line:84% a reverie distilled from a kiss, or a shadow 00:19:19.800 --> 00:19:23.940 align:middle line:84% along the edge of an open fan, or along the pattern of vines 00:19:23.940 --> 00:19:26.340 align:middle line:84% extending the night, or the code, 00:19:26.340 --> 00:19:29.760 align:middle line:84% room number X. Because the body survives 00:19:29.760 --> 00:19:34.950 align:middle line:84% to critique its depiction and gives in to the other who 00:19:34.950 --> 00:19:36.330 align:middle line:90% pre-figures the call." 00:19:36.330 --> 00:19:57.510 align:middle line:90% 00:19:57.510 --> 00:19:58.260 align:middle line:90% Anybody else? 00:19:58.260 --> 00:20:01.592 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:20:01.592 --> 00:20:07.320 align:middle line:90% 00:20:07.320 --> 00:20:09.490 align:middle line:84% In my next life, I'm going to be a very funny poet. 00:20:09.490 --> 00:20:09.990 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:20:09.990 --> 00:20:16.605 align:middle line:84% And-- or a very funny something, possibly dog. 00:20:16.605 --> 00:20:17.894 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:20:17.894 --> 00:20:24.030 align:middle line:90% 00:20:24.030 --> 00:20:25.500 align:middle line:90% This is as close as I ever get. 00:20:25.500 --> 00:20:28.740 align:middle line:90% So I'll read this. 00:20:28.740 --> 00:20:32.340 align:middle line:84% "Freesia Errata Slip," it's for the poet Elaine Equi. 00:20:32.340 --> 00:20:36.210 align:middle line:90% 00:20:36.210 --> 00:20:39.300 align:middle line:84% You all know what an errata slip is? 00:20:39.300 --> 00:20:41.070 align:middle line:90% Everybody nod, yes, no. 00:20:41.070 --> 00:20:42.330 align:middle line:90% Errata slip? 00:20:42.330 --> 00:20:43.955 align:middle line:84% Errata slip, it's when you get a book-- 00:20:43.955 --> 00:20:45.997 align:middle line:84% you probably know they don't do this-- they don't 00:20:45.997 --> 00:20:47.100 align:middle line:90% bother to do this anymore. 00:20:47.100 --> 00:20:48.840 align:middle line:84% But in the old days of publishing, 00:20:48.840 --> 00:20:53.640 align:middle line:84% if there was a mistake, a typo, you'd get a little slip in it. 00:20:53.640 --> 00:20:56.280 align:middle line:84% And that's an errata slip telling you about the error. 00:20:56.280 --> 00:20:57.150 align:middle line:90% I'm losing my voice. 00:20:57.150 --> 00:20:58.092 align:middle line:90% [COUGH] 00:20:58.092 --> 00:21:01.390 align:middle line:90% 00:21:01.390 --> 00:21:05.250 align:middle line:84% So this is "Freesia Errata Slip." 00:21:05.250 --> 00:21:08.790 align:middle line:84% It's for all of you who hate revision. 00:21:08.790 --> 00:21:12.150 align:middle line:84% "The flowers, of course, came to a standstill 00:21:12.150 --> 00:21:15.030 align:middle line:84% should read the flowers eventually 00:21:15.030 --> 00:21:17.670 align:middle line:90% came to a standstill. 00:21:17.670 --> 00:21:20.220 align:middle line:84% The flowers eventually came to a standstill 00:21:20.220 --> 00:21:25.440 align:middle line:84% should read the flowers meanwhile came to a standstill. 00:21:25.440 --> 00:21:27.840 align:middle line:84% The flowers meanwhile came to a standstill 00:21:27.840 --> 00:21:32.880 align:middle line:84% should read the flowers, however, came to a standstill. 00:21:32.880 --> 00:21:35.010 align:middle line:84% The flowers, however, came to a standstill 00:21:35.010 --> 00:21:39.630 align:middle line:84% should read the flowers naturally came to a standstill. 00:21:39.630 --> 00:21:42.360 align:middle line:84% The flowers naturally came to a standstill 00:21:42.360 --> 00:21:44.490 align:middle line:90% should read the flowers died." 00:21:44.490 --> 00:21:47.778 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:21:47.778 --> 00:21:56.760 align:middle line:90% 00:21:56.760 --> 00:21:59.910 align:middle line:84% I did a little sequence of poems called On, O-N, 00:21:59.910 --> 00:22:04.350 align:middle line:84% with various things inside of them, the things 00:22:04.350 --> 00:22:06.730 align:middle line:90% inside of parentheses. 00:22:06.730 --> 00:22:10.530 align:middle line:84% So on word, on thing, and on dream. 00:22:10.530 --> 00:22:13.320 align:middle line:90% I'll read you two of them. 00:22:13.320 --> 00:22:14.280 align:middle line:90% "On Word." 00:22:14.280 --> 00:22:18.290 align:middle line:90% 00:22:18.290 --> 00:22:22.860 align:middle line:84% Two towns in America came into this book. 00:22:22.860 --> 00:22:25.290 align:middle line:84% I mean, there must be others, but the two got named. 00:22:25.290 --> 00:22:28.740 align:middle line:84% One is Columbus, Ohio, and the other one is Tucson. 00:22:28.740 --> 00:22:33.540 align:middle line:84% And the strange thing is that about a month ago, I 00:22:33.540 --> 00:22:35.940 align:middle line:84% went to Columbus, Ohio for the first time. 00:22:35.940 --> 00:22:36.690 align:middle line:90% And now I'm here. 00:22:36.690 --> 00:22:38.148 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:22:38.148 --> 00:22:41.550 align:middle line:90% 00:22:41.550 --> 00:22:43.560 align:middle line:90% Name more towns, exactly. 00:22:43.560 --> 00:22:44.370 align:middle line:90% That's the lesson. 00:22:44.370 --> 00:22:46.140 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:22:46.140 --> 00:22:47.685 align:middle line:90% Here's Paris right over here. 00:22:47.685 --> 00:22:50.766 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:22:50.766 --> 00:22:54.030 align:middle line:90% 00:22:54.030 --> 00:22:55.860 align:middle line:90% "On Word." 00:22:55.860 --> 00:22:58.890 align:middle line:84% "Oh, but the sky unhinged, junket, junket, 00:22:58.890 --> 00:23:01.510 align:middle line:84% traverse perpetua, the Jays, the trucks. 00:23:01.510 --> 00:23:05.850 align:middle line:84% These are violent times, and our songs are old. 00:23:05.850 --> 00:23:10.050 align:middle line:84% Hast seen a ghost, has fled a tree collapsing on your head, 00:23:10.050 --> 00:23:13.620 align:middle line:84% and the snow rushes, and the storm passes. 00:23:13.620 --> 00:23:15.360 align:middle line:90% Are we mere vocabularies? 00:23:15.360 --> 00:23:17.910 align:middle line:90% I do or do not believe in God. 00:23:17.910 --> 00:23:20.010 align:middle line:90% She does or does not love him. 00:23:20.010 --> 00:23:22.410 align:middle line:84% He did or did not commit a crime. 00:23:22.410 --> 00:23:25.950 align:middle line:84% The hairy armed man is dressed in the flowered frock 00:23:25.950 --> 00:23:30.210 align:middle line:84% of his second grade teacher, a Mrs. Flood from Columbus. 00:23:30.210 --> 00:23:34.290 align:middle line:84% He carries a large, shiny handbag, a gun, 00:23:34.290 --> 00:23:37.920 align:middle line:84% a camera to record their vacation on the East Coast. 00:23:37.920 --> 00:23:40.260 align:middle line:90% He is or is not a woman. 00:23:40.260 --> 00:23:43.155 align:middle line:84% Words turn on the mischief of their telling." 00:23:43.155 --> 00:23:45.750 align:middle line:90% 00:23:45.750 --> 00:23:47.595 align:middle line:84% And this is an "On Thing," for Rick Moody. 00:23:47.595 --> 00:23:50.490 align:middle line:90% 00:23:50.490 --> 00:23:53.130 align:middle line:84% "And then having to hide under the thing, 00:23:53.130 --> 00:23:57.240 align:middle line:84% the rubber cone or tent at the foot of a virulent tree. 00:23:57.240 --> 00:23:59.760 align:middle line:84% And then she, in Paris, with her hair 00:23:59.760 --> 00:24:03.510 align:middle line:84% newly cut, leaving on a train for some place else. 00:24:03.510 --> 00:24:06.300 align:middle line:84% And I, unable to decide, stranded 00:24:06.300 --> 00:24:09.330 align:middle line:84% at the deception among strange shoes 00:24:09.330 --> 00:24:12.210 align:middle line:84% and the dull ornaments of a regime. 00:24:12.210 --> 00:24:15.480 align:middle line:84% The amber light of the mother is thickly spread 00:24:15.480 --> 00:24:19.980 align:middle line:84% and patches of carpet, shag green, planted on the sidewalk 00:24:19.980 --> 00:24:21.480 align:middle line:90% to imitate moss. 00:24:21.480 --> 00:24:24.150 align:middle line:90% Although moss is never there. 00:24:24.150 --> 00:24:28.350 align:middle line:84% Pushing this aside to get under the floor, below the written, 00:24:28.350 --> 00:24:32.640 align:middle line:84% as in a black winter pond, a cistern, or a pipe, 00:24:32.640 --> 00:24:37.170 align:middle line:84% or a throat, circling purple fish, shadow of an arm, 00:24:37.170 --> 00:24:42.340 align:middle line:84% toy boat, voice thread through stone between the S 00:24:42.340 --> 00:24:44.145 align:middle line:90% and the T and the one." 00:24:44.145 --> 00:24:51.855 align:middle line:90% 00:24:51.855 --> 00:24:55.360 align:middle line:90% Stop looking at your watch. 00:24:55.360 --> 00:24:58.210 align:middle line:84% And here's the one with Tucson in it. 00:24:58.210 --> 00:25:01.060 align:middle line:90% It's called "Staircase." 00:25:01.060 --> 00:25:05.110 align:middle line:84% And this is for the extraordinary journalist 00:25:05.110 --> 00:25:08.110 align:middle line:84% Jonathan Schell, who keeps trying to keep us 00:25:08.110 --> 00:25:14.860 align:middle line:84% from moving into a nuclear holocaust, 00:25:14.860 --> 00:25:17.470 align:middle line:84% but he seems to be practically alone at this point. 00:25:17.470 --> 00:25:19.750 align:middle line:90% "Staircase." 00:25:19.750 --> 00:25:25.030 align:middle line:84% "Stay, illegible harmonic twins, the harbor. 00:25:25.030 --> 00:25:27.760 align:middle line:84% There are coral episodes among the sails, 00:25:27.760 --> 00:25:29.530 align:middle line:90% and the kingfishers plunge. 00:25:29.530 --> 00:25:34.810 align:middle line:84% Stay, a petty wind fingers heat like a girl, her curls, 00:25:34.810 --> 00:25:38.320 align:middle line:84% gazing out at the ensuing collision. 00:25:38.320 --> 00:25:41.050 align:middle line:84% A woman staring into floodwaters is 00:25:41.050 --> 00:25:45.010 align:middle line:84% swept into a canyon in Tucson, Arizona. 00:25:45.010 --> 00:25:47.170 align:middle line:90% Had she read Empedocles? 00:25:47.170 --> 00:25:49.570 align:middle line:90% Had she recently wept? 00:25:49.570 --> 00:25:53.560 align:middle line:84% Light infected leaves, then drab, then heavily attired, 00:25:53.560 --> 00:25:56.950 align:middle line:84% the ephemera of heirs sway window to window, 00:25:56.950 --> 00:26:02.020 align:middle line:84% like a disembodied wing, its passage wholly unrecovered. 00:26:02.020 --> 00:26:05.470 align:middle line:84% In mournful arousal, a flame cascades 00:26:05.470 --> 00:26:07.720 align:middle line:90% as if to touch the end. 00:26:07.720 --> 00:26:12.250 align:middle line:84% Something waits in the pristine normal blue, a Saturday, 00:26:12.250 --> 00:26:15.550 align:middle line:90% or love, or a city besieged. 00:26:15.550 --> 00:26:16.900 align:middle line:90% The effects were known. 00:26:16.900 --> 00:26:18.760 align:middle line:84% They were the lived thing, ardently 00:26:18.760 --> 00:26:21.850 align:middle line:84% collapsing into a distant litter, remote pages 00:26:21.850 --> 00:26:25.300 align:middle line:84% to be burned to the wake of a small green boat allotted 00:26:25.300 --> 00:26:28.930 align:middle line:84% to a scrim, or Paris, or a salon. 00:26:28.930 --> 00:26:32.110 align:middle line:84% How beautiful, how untrue, is what historians 00:26:32.110 --> 00:26:36.220 align:middle line:84% would say as the white frothy stuff swept over the bow, 00:26:36.220 --> 00:26:40.270 align:middle line:84% not ever acknowledged, not yet counted, not yet found. 00:26:40.270 --> 00:26:43.330 align:middle line:84% There is the ferret, Luna, lost in the wood 00:26:43.330 --> 00:26:45.820 align:middle line:90% pile in the dog days of August. 00:26:45.820 --> 00:26:49.990 align:middle line:84% Someone called Matthew and someone called Tom move 00:26:49.990 --> 00:26:53.050 align:middle line:84% across time, as across a bright lawn, 00:26:53.050 --> 00:26:56.170 align:middle line:84% while a felicity steers into moonlessness, 00:26:56.170 --> 00:26:59.980 align:middle line:84% where one might say, not a matter of seeing, 00:26:59.980 --> 00:27:01.770 align:middle line:90% a matter of touch. 00:27:01.770 --> 00:27:06.150 align:middle line:84% Homer, for example, finding his way down the staircase." 00:27:06.150 --> 00:27:16.000 align:middle line:90% 00:27:16.000 --> 00:27:17.110 align:middle line:90% Skip, skip, skip, skip. 00:27:17.110 --> 00:27:18.032 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:27:18.032 --> 00:27:20.340 align:middle line:90% 00:27:20.340 --> 00:27:21.810 align:middle line:90% "And the fire spread. 00:27:21.810 --> 00:27:24.960 align:middle line:84% In case the world changes, in case things 00:27:24.960 --> 00:27:28.170 align:middle line:84% stampede impatiently into view, all arms 00:27:28.170 --> 00:27:32.190 align:middle line:84% expected, and the arcade slings through plasticity, 00:27:32.190 --> 00:27:33.780 align:middle line:90% an odd spell. 00:27:33.780 --> 00:27:37.200 align:middle line:84% In case this is legible, and we are lucky and present, 00:27:37.200 --> 00:27:41.460 align:middle line:84% not nearly asleep, not still in the after you've gone. 00:27:41.460 --> 00:27:46.500 align:middle line:84% In case lesions open, and the manifest swells to be copied. 00:27:46.500 --> 00:27:49.980 align:middle line:84% Everything that comes my way becomes a picture for me 00:27:49.980 --> 00:27:52.410 align:middle line:84% of what I am thinking about at the time. 00:27:52.410 --> 00:27:55.950 align:middle line:84% Bride wrapped in rags, doused with kerosene, 00:27:55.950 --> 00:27:59.910 align:middle line:84% goes inflamed into dusk, drawing the long fog 00:27:59.910 --> 00:28:04.530 align:middle line:84% after her into waters where, of hope, of rapture, 00:28:04.530 --> 00:28:07.410 align:middle line:84% against a distinction, in traveling with nothing 00:28:07.410 --> 00:28:11.460 align:middle line:84% for eternity, in ambush for one, in the hope of an endless 00:28:11.460 --> 00:28:14.850 align:middle line:84% of capture, of song, for a stranger, in the midst 00:28:14.850 --> 00:28:18.750 align:middle line:84% to a certain on it to whom, to whom, to a doubt 00:28:18.750 --> 00:28:21.600 align:middle line:84% of being, of guilt in the tree, in the valley, 00:28:21.600 --> 00:28:26.280 align:middle line:84% of triumph with lessening for an excuse of nails for two sticks 00:28:26.280 --> 00:28:30.840 align:middle line:84% of how fallen into of kisses on her lap, to the future 00:28:30.840 --> 00:28:35.040 align:middle line:84% in my shoes, out of spinning for the same, with my stuff 00:28:35.040 --> 00:28:37.530 align:middle line:90% of a morning to this. 00:28:37.530 --> 00:28:40.920 align:middle line:84% What is keeps custody of what we will never be, 00:28:40.920 --> 00:28:44.820 align:middle line:84% clustered radically in knots, withheld as lateness 00:28:44.820 --> 00:28:49.140 align:middle line:84% or shine its webbed course stayed. 00:28:49.140 --> 00:28:52.950 align:middle line:84% Nothing speaks, so there is no poetry there, just 00:28:52.950 --> 00:28:58.200 align:middle line:84% riot and tidal wisps blown into shade and other sham effusions, 00:28:58.200 --> 00:29:00.240 align:middle line:90% except when otherwise alone. 00:29:00.240 --> 00:29:04.350 align:middle line:84% Although we are now rhetorically cold, flimsy as gloves 00:29:04.350 --> 00:29:06.000 align:middle line:90% left on a doorstep. 00:29:06.000 --> 00:29:09.450 align:middle line:90% Do not even then agree. 00:29:09.450 --> 00:29:11.400 align:middle line:84% For the clarity that we are aiming at 00:29:11.400 --> 00:29:13.350 align:middle line:84% is indeed complete clarity, which 00:29:13.350 --> 00:29:16.500 align:middle line:84% means that the problems should disappear completely. 00:29:16.500 --> 00:29:18.750 align:middle line:84% The real discovery is one that gives 00:29:18.750 --> 00:29:22.170 align:middle line:84% peace that no longer brings itself into question. 00:29:22.170 --> 00:29:25.170 align:middle line:84% We demonstrate a method by examples, 00:29:25.170 --> 00:29:30.330 align:middle line:84% and the series of examples can be broken off. 00:29:30.330 --> 00:29:34.230 align:middle line:84% All is contained in the bubbles floating code, not 00:29:34.230 --> 00:29:37.380 align:middle line:84% this sheltering skin with its abrasions. 00:29:37.380 --> 00:29:41.070 align:middle line:84% The lovely conduct of things, architectural, denuded, 00:29:41.070 --> 00:29:43.890 align:middle line:84% seen from above is elsewhere conditioned 00:29:43.890 --> 00:29:46.080 align:middle line:90% but opened to surmise. 00:29:46.080 --> 00:29:48.900 align:middle line:84% Here, in the throat's watery plume, 00:29:48.900 --> 00:29:52.410 align:middle line:84% a voice is besieged by the moon's portrait, mistress 00:29:52.410 --> 00:29:56.040 align:middle line:84% of the huge marquee, where the dots are not connected. 00:29:56.040 --> 00:29:58.890 align:middle line:84% And of the curbs tree, the rivers, city, 00:29:58.890 --> 00:30:04.230 align:middle line:84% its theme drawn into a bowl as colors allegiance. 00:30:04.230 --> 00:30:08.520 align:middle line:84% Three doves perch against a plaster sky. 00:30:08.520 --> 00:30:15.630 align:middle line:84% Lichen steal from tapestries and maps, a pewter flood. 00:30:15.630 --> 00:30:18.690 align:middle line:84% What is the world if not brilliance tarnished 00:30:18.690 --> 00:30:20.400 align:middle line:90% to memorable debris? 00:30:20.400 --> 00:30:23.430 align:middle line:84% Toothless, repugnant, our lady of hags 00:30:23.430 --> 00:30:28.950 align:middle line:84% drags from coast to coast, her burlap bag leaking. 00:30:28.950 --> 00:30:30.570 align:middle line:90% Oh, moon, we call. 00:30:30.570 --> 00:30:32.700 align:middle line:90% Oh, bright thing. 00:30:32.700 --> 00:30:35.160 align:middle line:84% Who are we to arrest serendipity, 00:30:35.160 --> 00:30:38.460 align:middle line:84% when your radiance dribbles into the sea? 00:30:38.460 --> 00:30:41.580 align:middle line:84% The captain's skill did not save the crew. 00:30:41.580 --> 00:30:43.690 align:middle line:90% Flaws foiled passage. 00:30:43.690 --> 00:30:47.820 align:middle line:84% So what was expected did not arrive on the stainless steel 00:30:47.820 --> 00:30:48.930 align:middle line:90% tray. 00:30:48.930 --> 00:30:53.940 align:middle line:84% Something axiomatic or idiomatic flew out of the cuckoo's mouth 00:30:53.940 --> 00:30:58.050 align:middle line:84% and away into the century we can almost see. 00:30:58.050 --> 00:31:00.690 align:middle line:84% Huge calipers moved against wind, 00:31:00.690 --> 00:31:03.900 align:middle line:84% doses of prior delight, suds and tubs, 00:31:03.900 --> 00:31:06.870 align:middle line:90% gleeful memoirs of an awful age. 00:31:06.870 --> 00:31:09.180 align:middle line:84% Stoic vouchers, burdens of proof, 00:31:09.180 --> 00:31:12.120 align:middle line:84% meanwhile, a vanguard carried estrangement 00:31:12.120 --> 00:31:13.890 align:middle line:90% into the path of our alliance. 00:31:13.890 --> 00:31:18.120 align:middle line:84% And pandemonium's tryst skyrocketed into the voyeur's 00:31:18.120 --> 00:31:19.530 align:middle line:90% polished lens. 00:31:19.530 --> 00:31:21.840 align:middle line:90% Tools of trade. 00:31:21.840 --> 00:31:25.710 align:middle line:84% A fashion for linen sheathed our hands, legs, 00:31:25.710 --> 00:31:27.660 align:middle line:90% heads into fake burdens. 00:31:27.660 --> 00:31:31.080 align:middle line:84% Bleach made our eyes smart with revision. 00:31:31.080 --> 00:31:35.310 align:middle line:84% Confidence thus augmented, even the wind seemed irresponsible, 00:31:35.310 --> 00:31:40.020 align:middle line:84% no vacancy at the empty inn, and the fire spread. 00:31:40.020 --> 00:31:43.290 align:middle line:84% Dissertations multiplied into the quixotic chat 00:31:43.290 --> 00:31:44.520 align:middle line:90% of the living dead. 00:31:44.520 --> 00:31:49.050 align:middle line:84% Figurines conversed on rooftop gardens like balconies of gods. 00:31:49.050 --> 00:31:50.130 align:middle line:90% Tear here. 00:31:50.130 --> 00:31:51.990 align:middle line:90% Cut along this edge. 00:31:51.990 --> 00:31:54.180 align:middle line:84% Above a broken cauldron, something 00:31:54.180 --> 00:32:00.600 align:middle line:84% wept, staining the windows with filigrees of ash. 00:32:00.600 --> 00:32:04.140 align:middle line:84% Caprice in the name of following with nothing as nothing 00:32:04.140 --> 00:32:06.990 align:middle line:84% beckons, although our service is still best, 00:32:06.990 --> 00:32:10.050 align:middle line:84% sending the mediated village gruel. 00:32:10.050 --> 00:32:13.140 align:middle line:84% If you, in tawdry remembrance lamp lit, 00:32:13.140 --> 00:32:17.370 align:middle line:84% were to come in at last, would you still carry a tune? 00:32:17.370 --> 00:32:21.460 align:middle line:84% How long before the mood comes to rest as in an earlier now 00:32:21.460 --> 00:32:23.950 align:middle line:90% preserved as curious mirth? 00:32:23.950 --> 00:32:25.780 align:middle line:90% What is it? 00:32:25.780 --> 00:32:29.440 align:middle line:84% Paper umbrellas collect distant rain. 00:32:29.440 --> 00:32:32.050 align:middle line:84% This close to failure, a runt God 00:32:32.050 --> 00:32:36.460 align:middle line:84% might flip out of the drain to rescue us, tiny, gold hip 00:32:36.460 --> 00:32:39.550 align:middle line:90% flask, atomic cufflinks. 00:32:39.550 --> 00:32:43.270 align:middle line:84% And that president's grin never to be endured again 00:32:43.270 --> 00:32:45.100 align:middle line:90% in any language. 00:32:45.100 --> 00:32:46.960 align:middle line:90% What's in store for us today? 00:32:46.960 --> 00:32:47.890 align:middle line:90% What catalog? 00:32:47.890 --> 00:32:48.970 align:middle line:90% What bequest? 00:32:48.970 --> 00:32:53.770 align:middle line:84% Curtains spill out onto the sky to hide a cast of strangers. 00:32:53.770 --> 00:32:57.310 align:middle line:84% No machine, no team, no fat white shoes 00:32:57.310 --> 00:33:00.880 align:middle line:84% with good arch support, just the cold noise 00:33:00.880 --> 00:33:04.180 align:middle line:90% of the eternally unhomed. 00:33:04.180 --> 00:33:09.340 align:middle line:84% She gazes from every glossy page, a slender emptiness. 00:33:09.340 --> 00:33:13.360 align:middle line:84% How many stairs has she climbed to nowhere? 00:33:13.360 --> 00:33:16.310 align:middle line:90% Morning, then, is a mask. 00:33:16.310 --> 00:33:21.640 align:middle line:84% And these songs, they, toys to prevent vertigo. 00:33:21.640 --> 00:33:24.070 align:middle line:90% Tell me a really scary story. 00:33:24.070 --> 00:33:27.910 align:middle line:84% Catch this wild mimosa bowl plucked from Blake's wheel. 00:33:27.910 --> 00:33:30.700 align:middle line:84% Have you practiced your absence today? 00:33:30.700 --> 00:33:33.700 align:middle line:84% Or some twist of fate the scavengers provide 00:33:33.700 --> 00:33:36.400 align:middle line:84% to tool the future as patterns of wind 00:33:36.400 --> 00:33:42.280 align:middle line:84% braid the last person to be execu-- 00:33:42.280 --> 00:33:44.440 align:middle line:84% or some twist of fate, the scavengers 00:33:44.440 --> 00:33:48.910 align:middle line:84% provide to tool the future as patterns of wind braid. 00:33:48.910 --> 00:33:51.850 align:middle line:84% The last person to be executed in Florida 00:33:51.850 --> 00:33:54.490 align:middle line:90% was a Black slave with a noose. 00:33:54.490 --> 00:33:55.600 align:middle line:90% Take heed. 00:33:55.600 --> 00:33:58.240 align:middle line:90% Safety in numbers is a hoax. 00:33:58.240 --> 00:34:02.140 align:middle line:84% One man's guide is another's mistranslation stumbling 00:34:02.140 --> 00:34:07.990 align:middle line:84% barefoot down the cliff into the cartoon's inky crawl. 00:34:07.990 --> 00:34:10.630 align:middle line:84% Of its own success, upon the asylum, 00:34:10.630 --> 00:34:14.530 align:middle line:84% of course, into something for repressively of patients 00:34:14.530 --> 00:34:18.770 align:middle line:84% to 500 or 600 of that sort on the edge, on all sides, 00:34:18.770 --> 00:34:21.790 align:middle line:84% from the semantic against moral treatment with it 00:34:21.790 --> 00:34:25.900 align:middle line:84% by a growing population of an organic, of the 20th century, 00:34:25.900 --> 00:34:29.980 align:middle line:84% in understanding by contrast of decay, on their part, 00:34:29.980 --> 00:34:33.639 align:middle line:84% in institutional of an infectious illness of sanity 00:34:33.639 --> 00:34:36.130 align:middle line:90% into some fun. 00:34:36.130 --> 00:34:39.040 align:middle line:84% Devotional excess laminates the seal. 00:34:39.040 --> 00:34:43.090 align:middle line:84% Facsimiles burlesque obscures the song. 00:34:43.090 --> 00:34:46.540 align:middle line:84% How unseemly our ambassadors could not relax, 00:34:46.540 --> 00:34:47.635 align:middle line:90% could not pull loose. 00:34:47.635 --> 00:34:53.420 align:middle line:90% 00:34:53.420 --> 00:34:57.710 align:middle line:84% I carry my skyline with a harsh tip, an old fashioned fountain 00:34:57.710 --> 00:35:00.590 align:middle line:84% held by spirits, even after the funeral. 00:35:00.590 --> 00:35:03.050 align:middle line:84% So the monastery sink is in the center 00:35:03.050 --> 00:35:05.510 align:middle line:90% with a logic behind birds. 00:35:05.510 --> 00:35:09.860 align:middle line:84% The birds are necessary if the dawn is to be useful. 00:35:09.860 --> 00:35:12.560 align:middle line:84% And the enemy suddenly from city to city 00:35:12.560 --> 00:35:16.160 align:middle line:84% comes forward toward the lover with a frame, an animal, 00:35:16.160 --> 00:35:20.030 align:middle line:84% and finds a way by touch through the drawing room 00:35:20.030 --> 00:35:23.960 align:middle line:84% into the field, pressing down the fire escape by flashlight, 00:35:23.960 --> 00:35:27.110 align:middle line:84% traipse from island to island with nothing to sell, 00:35:27.110 --> 00:35:30.500 align:middle line:90% head back to the cabin's shade. 00:35:30.500 --> 00:35:31.100 align:middle line:90% Do it. 00:35:31.100 --> 00:35:32.090 align:middle line:90% Leave here. 00:35:32.090 --> 00:35:34.400 align:middle line:84% Take your empirical tirade with you. 00:35:34.400 --> 00:35:36.770 align:middle line:84% Its grandeur is winter and zig zag 00:35:36.770 --> 00:35:39.110 align:middle line:90% prowl, missing person's voice. 00:35:39.110 --> 00:35:41.960 align:middle line:84% Even in gossip's vacant, lot there's 00:35:41.960 --> 00:35:45.230 align:middle line:90% a trace of us in every buyout. 00:35:45.230 --> 00:35:48.170 align:middle line:84% Of a person in profile, of space toward you, 00:35:48.170 --> 00:35:51.890 align:middle line:84% of floors to live between from a box with gold of a bird, 00:35:51.890 --> 00:35:55.220 align:middle line:84% of a man, of its oracle into different of a content 00:35:55.220 --> 00:35:58.640 align:middle line:90% between objects of an ideal. 00:35:58.640 --> 00:36:01.130 align:middle line:84% My hands in the shape of a house. 00:36:01.130 --> 00:36:02.570 align:middle line:90% Where's the kitchen? 00:36:02.570 --> 00:36:05.750 align:middle line:84% Where forbearance, lost antecedents, 00:36:05.750 --> 00:36:10.500 align:middle line:84% faces in another century, when photography is not allowed. 00:36:10.500 --> 00:36:12.800 align:middle line:90% Sell the groom his trousers. 00:36:12.800 --> 00:36:16.040 align:middle line:84% Then I recall that his buttons were but partial moons, 00:36:16.040 --> 00:36:19.400 align:middle line:84% and the water wheels in the cellar became extinct. 00:36:19.400 --> 00:36:22.460 align:middle line:90% Or so we are told. 00:36:22.460 --> 00:36:26.690 align:middle line:84% Not in the room with the fake hair is baleful expertise. 00:36:26.690 --> 00:36:30.560 align:middle line:84% Not where the sister is in the parapets' transition that 00:36:30.560 --> 00:36:33.980 align:middle line:84% others cannot hear, not the imperious yank into hoodlums 00:36:33.980 --> 00:36:36.080 align:middle line:90% fame, where delusion accrues. 00:36:36.080 --> 00:36:38.480 align:middle line:84% Not the hum's drag across limelight, 00:36:38.480 --> 00:36:43.010 align:middle line:84% where company is sometimes kept as title mirrors brake light. 00:36:43.010 --> 00:36:46.490 align:middle line:84% Could we say this green is humorless and shines 00:36:46.490 --> 00:36:49.970 align:middle line:84% only to please an acrobat's poised flip? 00:36:49.970 --> 00:36:53.150 align:middle line:84% Is the postcard delirious with its orphan stamp? 00:36:53.150 --> 00:36:54.260 align:middle line:90% You go your way. 00:36:54.260 --> 00:36:55.160 align:middle line:90% I'll go mine. 00:36:55.160 --> 00:36:58.820 align:middle line:84% The evening uncollected, a penny on the street. 00:36:58.820 --> 00:37:01.790 align:middle line:84% What is unfinished is not by choice gathering 00:37:01.790 --> 00:37:06.470 align:middle line:84% inconvenient slang to ride the large dark over the dark city. 00:37:06.470 --> 00:37:09.560 align:middle line:84% I can see this thing opening onto another thing, 00:37:09.560 --> 00:37:11.090 align:middle line:90% but I cannot pronounce it. 00:37:11.090 --> 00:37:13.370 align:middle line:84% Neither the one with the freeze of antlers, 00:37:13.370 --> 00:37:14.990 align:middle line:90% nor the one with the clocks. 00:37:14.990 --> 00:37:17.450 align:middle line:84% Taking off gloves is a theatrical event 00:37:17.450 --> 00:37:21.740 align:middle line:84% like tossing a pail of water at an immense flame 00:37:21.740 --> 00:37:25.850 align:middle line:84% or following a script in which a boy impales himself on a mast 00:37:25.850 --> 00:37:27.710 align:middle line:90% as the crowd watches. 00:37:27.710 --> 00:37:30.950 align:middle line:90% The crowd always watches. 00:37:30.950 --> 00:37:33.440 align:middle line:84% On the walls, in the starkest, in the wrong, 00:37:33.440 --> 00:37:38.270 align:middle line:84% with our physical fire on fire, to the Hebrews of plans of sins 00:37:38.270 --> 00:37:41.210 align:middle line:84% without the in this century and a revelation. 00:37:41.210 --> 00:37:43.310 align:middle line:84% On the other hand, in this century, 00:37:43.310 --> 00:37:46.910 align:middle line:84% to a perception, at least for a moment for us, in which 00:37:46.910 --> 00:37:49.880 align:middle line:84% of the relation from the great between services 00:37:49.880 --> 00:37:53.270 align:middle line:84% of experience in every of there, to their diction, 00:37:53.270 --> 00:37:56.630 align:middle line:84% to each between services on a forward from which, 00:37:56.630 --> 00:38:00.470 align:middle line:84% by myself, into my innermost, by my souls with love, 00:38:00.470 --> 00:38:04.040 align:middle line:84% in a region with my eye, above my mind, before the light, 00:38:04.040 --> 00:38:07.820 align:middle line:84% with love, into an awareness with love from you in time, 00:38:07.820 --> 00:38:10.580 align:middle line:84% out of which features for forces of something 00:38:10.580 --> 00:38:14.000 align:middle line:84% by mismanagement from his face of information 00:38:14.000 --> 00:38:17.390 align:middle line:90% on the soundtrack." 00:38:17.390 --> 00:38:18.220 align:middle line:90% Whoa. 00:38:18.220 --> 00:38:19.530 align:middle line:90% I forgot that was so long. 00:38:19.530 --> 00:38:21.015 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:38:21.015 --> 00:38:23.730 align:middle line:90% 00:38:23.730 --> 00:38:24.230 align:middle line:90% OK. 00:38:24.230 --> 00:38:25.980 align:middle line:84% I'm going to read one more from this book, 00:38:25.980 --> 00:38:29.390 align:middle line:84% and then I'm going to go and read a few new poems to you. 00:38:29.390 --> 00:38:34.358 align:middle line:90% 00:38:34.358 --> 00:38:35.150 align:middle line:90% This one's for you. 00:38:35.150 --> 00:38:38.680 align:middle line:90% 00:38:38.680 --> 00:38:40.070 align:middle line:90% Are you holding up? 00:38:40.070 --> 00:38:40.580 align:middle line:90% Most of you? 00:38:40.580 --> 00:38:49.057 align:middle line:90% 00:38:49.057 --> 00:38:50.765 align:middle line:84% This is called "Harm's Way, Arm's Reach." 00:38:50.765 --> 00:38:57.400 align:middle line:90% 00:38:57.400 --> 00:39:01.990 align:middle line:84% And it does have a little tiny piece of-- 00:39:01.990 --> 00:39:03.842 align:middle line:84% it might be interesting to notice. 00:39:03.842 --> 00:39:05.050 align:middle line:90% I went away, and I came back. 00:39:05.050 --> 00:39:07.000 align:middle line:84% And I looked out the windows, and somebody 00:39:07.000 --> 00:39:08.630 align:middle line:90% had chopped all the-- 00:39:08.630 --> 00:39:12.670 align:middle line:84% a lot of the limbs off the one tree 00:39:12.670 --> 00:39:17.920 align:middle line:84% that's in the back of my loft in Manhattan. 00:39:17.920 --> 00:39:22.840 align:middle line:84% And I felt like somebody had murdered this tree. 00:39:22.840 --> 00:39:24.430 align:middle line:90% The tree survived, actually. 00:39:24.430 --> 00:39:27.070 align:middle line:84% But anyway, that's the beginning of this poem. 00:39:27.070 --> 00:39:34.980 align:middle line:90% 00:39:34.980 --> 00:39:36.660 align:middle line:84% Some people up there in the total dark. 00:39:36.660 --> 00:39:41.980 align:middle line:90% 00:39:41.980 --> 00:39:44.800 align:middle line:90% "Harm's Way, Arm's Reach." 00:39:44.800 --> 00:39:47.530 align:middle line:84% "Things are not cured by resilience. 00:39:47.530 --> 00:39:51.940 align:middle line:84% Thrash, thrash, wept the amputated limb, unable to lean, 00:39:51.940 --> 00:39:54.550 align:middle line:90% starved of its hair. 00:39:54.550 --> 00:39:57.850 align:middle line:84% A group of men wanted to avenge, to truncate the city, 00:39:57.850 --> 00:40:00.520 align:middle line:90% to make everyone scream. 00:40:00.520 --> 00:40:03.220 align:middle line:84% On the bateau in wild heat, children 00:40:03.220 --> 00:40:06.280 align:middle line:84% laughed for the history lesson with the great facades 00:40:06.280 --> 00:40:09.290 align:middle line:90% in the year of friendly fire. 00:40:09.290 --> 00:40:11.650 align:middle line:84% The friend looked away, subverting fate, 00:40:11.650 --> 00:40:15.190 align:middle line:84% because of the wound, saying, I disapprove of the personality 00:40:15.190 --> 00:40:17.620 align:middle line:84% of the street which cannot be arranged. 00:40:17.620 --> 00:40:22.720 align:middle line:84% Henceforth, two out of three curtains must be closed. 00:40:22.720 --> 00:40:27.550 align:middle line:84% In fiction's unhinged seat, in the hesitant new, 00:40:27.550 --> 00:40:31.930 align:middle line:84% resting under a shadow embodied in febrile need. 00:40:31.930 --> 00:40:36.760 align:middle line:84% And from afar, far in that land, song of the first bird, 00:40:36.760 --> 00:40:41.140 align:middle line:84% pressure in the throat, gospel devoted to mercy, a zone 00:40:41.140 --> 00:40:44.560 align:middle line:84% or hinge out of the discursive enclosure. 00:40:44.560 --> 00:40:47.080 align:middle line:84% Long freeze of furious goddesses, 00:40:47.080 --> 00:40:51.640 align:middle line:84% wrath of the drunken boy, in the home of depraved girls, 00:40:51.640 --> 00:40:53.815 align:middle line:84% in the department of recent arrivals. 00:40:53.815 --> 00:40:56.440 align:middle line:90% 00:40:56.440 --> 00:40:58.870 align:middle line:90% My name is an unsolved equation. 00:40:58.870 --> 00:40:59.920 align:middle line:90% I come toward you. 00:40:59.920 --> 00:41:03.430 align:middle line:84% I ask you to meet me at twilight in the unfinished part 00:41:03.430 --> 00:41:06.970 align:middle line:84% of the story in the small grotto in the room with giraffes 00:41:06.970 --> 00:41:09.850 align:middle line:84% and a man with a string, when it is raining, when 00:41:09.850 --> 00:41:13.300 align:middle line:84% all the maps are spread on the desk, where the towels, 00:41:13.300 --> 00:41:15.010 align:middle line:90% where the nest fell. 00:41:15.010 --> 00:41:19.060 align:middle line:84% I write to you from the place of habit, but today, I am young. 00:41:19.060 --> 00:41:23.860 align:middle line:84% I am merely a slant perpetually drawn into spelling. 00:41:23.860 --> 00:41:27.820 align:middle line:84% My name is a tall man who walks along the street of books 00:41:27.820 --> 00:41:32.500 align:middle line:84% in the year of the mouth who has not forgotten how to kiss. 00:41:32.500 --> 00:41:35.110 align:middle line:84% The friend says, but in order to fix it, 00:41:35.110 --> 00:41:37.630 align:middle line:84% you must have a sense of prior perfection. 00:41:37.630 --> 00:41:39.730 align:middle line:90% She says, light, beauty, fire. 00:41:39.730 --> 00:41:42.100 align:middle line:84% I say, toward, and rage of the weed, 00:41:42.100 --> 00:41:45.670 align:middle line:90% and etymology, and starvation. 00:41:45.670 --> 00:41:48.280 align:middle line:84% I say, the change or revolution that 00:41:48.280 --> 00:41:52.150 align:middle line:84% does not produce the conclusion or final event 00:41:52.150 --> 00:41:58.030 align:middle line:84% catastrophe as definition, the wall that was. 00:41:58.030 --> 00:42:01.090 align:middle line:84% Where we come from abides as choice. 00:42:01.090 --> 00:42:03.370 align:middle line:90% It is the way of a vowel. 00:42:03.370 --> 00:42:07.120 align:middle line:84% Have you remembered to take all your belongings with you? 00:42:07.120 --> 00:42:10.390 align:middle line:90% Today, all distance is summer. 00:42:10.390 --> 00:42:12.130 align:middle line:84% If you open the curtains, you will 00:42:12.130 --> 00:42:16.240 align:middle line:84% see the evil wires, the broken lock, the rifles, the plot, 00:42:16.240 --> 00:42:18.610 align:middle line:84% dark crevices of diminished weight, 00:42:18.610 --> 00:42:21.880 align:middle line:84% the lesson of the open hand, your mother's maiden name. 00:42:21.880 --> 00:42:26.200 align:middle line:84% You will hear a cluster of pilgrims undaunted by speed, 00:42:26.200 --> 00:42:29.980 align:middle line:84% flagrant as any transparency, the indelible scheme 00:42:29.980 --> 00:42:32.920 align:middle line:84% of the wish, a parade for no reason, 00:42:32.920 --> 00:42:35.605 align:middle line:84% an apricot thud where the limb was." 00:42:35.605 --> 00:42:40.300 align:middle line:90% 00:42:40.300 --> 00:42:43.120 align:middle line:84% I'm really out of time, but I'll read just a couple. 00:42:43.120 --> 00:42:43.690 align:middle line:90% Is that OK? 00:42:43.690 --> 00:42:47.440 align:middle line:90% 00:42:47.440 --> 00:42:51.040 align:middle line:90% A couple of new poems. 00:42:51.040 --> 00:42:52.516 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:42:52.516 --> 00:43:01.870 align:middle line:90% 00:43:01.870 --> 00:43:05.090 align:middle line:90% Driving them out. 00:43:05.090 --> 00:43:05.590 align:middle line:90% It's hard. 00:43:05.590 --> 00:43:06.160 align:middle line:90% I'm sorry. 00:43:06.160 --> 00:43:08.260 align:middle line:84% I shouldn't have read that long poem, 00:43:08.260 --> 00:43:11.067 align:middle line:84% despite the fact that you asked for it. 00:43:11.067 --> 00:43:12.005 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:43:12.005 --> 00:43:14.350 align:middle line:90% 00:43:14.350 --> 00:43:16.780 align:middle line:84% All right, short poems you need, short little tiny poems. 00:43:16.780 --> 00:43:20.020 align:middle line:90% 00:43:20.020 --> 00:43:20.822 align:middle line:90% What? 00:43:20.822 --> 00:43:22.060 align:middle line:90% No, not necessarily. 00:43:22.060 --> 00:43:23.317 align:middle line:90% Not necessarily? 00:43:23.317 --> 00:43:24.400 align:middle line:90% Oh, you're my best friend. 00:43:24.400 --> 00:43:25.640 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:43:25.640 --> 00:43:26.140 align:middle line:90% 00:43:26.140 --> 00:43:27.220 align:middle line:90% I was told 50 minutes. 00:43:27.220 --> 00:43:29.680 align:middle line:84% It's almost 50 minutes exactly now. 00:43:29.680 --> 00:43:31.824 align:middle line:90% I don't have any time. 00:43:31.824 --> 00:43:34.030 align:middle line:84% You don't have to count the time in-between poems. 00:43:34.030 --> 00:43:34.540 align:middle line:90% Really? 00:43:34.540 --> 00:43:36.730 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:43:36.730 --> 00:43:37.745 align:middle line:90% There's hope? 00:43:37.745 --> 00:43:40.120 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:43:40.120 --> 00:43:42.230 align:middle line:90% 00:43:42.230 --> 00:43:44.185 align:middle line:84% Just slowly, there's another one. 00:43:44.185 --> 00:43:45.560 align:middle line:84% There'd just be three of us here. 00:43:45.560 --> 00:43:46.641 align:middle line:90% I'll be reading-- 00:43:46.641 --> 00:43:49.590 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:43:49.590 --> 00:43:50.160 align:middle line:90% 00:43:50.160 --> 00:43:51.560 align:middle line:90% And then you'll remember this. 00:43:51.560 --> 00:43:52.060 align:middle line:90% Right? 00:43:52.060 --> 00:43:53.638 align:middle line:90% She came, and then she read. 00:43:53.638 --> 00:43:55.180 align:middle line:84% And she said she looked at her watch, 00:43:55.180 --> 00:43:56.350 align:middle line:90% and then she read some more. 00:43:56.350 --> 00:43:58.683 align:middle line:84% And then she read some more, and she just never stopped. 00:43:58.683 --> 00:44:00.970 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:44:00.970 --> 00:44:01.960 align:middle line:90% 00:44:01.960 --> 00:44:02.560 align:middle line:90% All right. 00:44:02.560 --> 00:44:05.446 align:middle line:90% So much for the joke. 00:44:05.446 --> 00:44:07.856 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:44:07.856 --> 00:44:09.005 align:middle line:90% 00:44:09.005 --> 00:44:10.630 align:middle line:84% See, I really want to read these poems. 00:44:10.630 --> 00:44:13.930 align:middle line:84% I'm furious that I didn't give myself enough time. 00:44:13.930 --> 00:44:17.020 align:middle line:84% So I just have to find what I most want you to hear. 00:44:17.020 --> 00:44:23.167 align:middle line:90% 00:44:23.167 --> 00:44:24.750 align:middle line:84% Do you want something that just sounds 00:44:24.750 --> 00:44:26.583 align:middle line:84% very different from anything that I've read? 00:44:26.583 --> 00:44:27.420 align:middle line:90% Yeah. 00:44:27.420 --> 00:44:28.100 align:middle line:90% Yes. 00:44:28.100 --> 00:44:28.725 align:middle line:90% Right, thanks. 00:44:28.725 --> 00:44:31.806 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:44:31.806 --> 00:44:33.650 align:middle line:90% 00:44:33.650 --> 00:44:37.520 align:middle line:90% Very, very, very consoling. 00:44:37.520 --> 00:44:40.160 align:middle line:90% You're-- leave now. 00:44:40.160 --> 00:44:43.370 align:middle line:90% That was a trick question. 00:44:43.370 --> 00:44:43.970 align:middle line:90% Yeah. 00:44:43.970 --> 00:44:47.208 align:middle line:90% Well, all right. 00:44:47.208 --> 00:44:47.750 align:middle line:90% You're right. 00:44:47.750 --> 00:44:48.390 align:middle line:90% I'm getting there. 00:44:48.390 --> 00:44:49.140 align:middle line:90% I'm getting there. 00:44:49.140 --> 00:44:51.410 align:middle line:90% Just wait. 00:44:51.410 --> 00:44:53.300 align:middle line:84% You want something a little less splintered. 00:44:53.300 --> 00:44:54.320 align:middle line:90% Right? 00:44:54.320 --> 00:44:55.480 align:middle line:90% Ann, stop this. 00:44:55.480 --> 00:44:56.300 align:middle line:90% This is ridiculous. 00:44:56.300 --> 00:45:03.760 align:middle line:90% 00:45:03.760 --> 00:45:04.260 align:middle line:90% All right. 00:45:04.260 --> 00:45:06.330 align:middle line:90% I'm going to read one that-- 00:45:06.330 --> 00:45:19.290 align:middle line:90% 00:45:19.290 --> 00:45:20.725 align:middle line:90% OK. 00:45:20.725 --> 00:45:23.100 align:middle line:84% I'm going to really indulge, but I'm reading three poems. 00:45:23.100 --> 00:45:24.390 align:middle line:90% OK? 00:45:24.390 --> 00:45:25.200 align:middle line:90% You can count them. 00:45:25.200 --> 00:45:28.230 align:middle line:90% 00:45:28.230 --> 00:45:29.000 align:middle line:90% That's one. 00:45:29.000 --> 00:45:33.221 align:middle line:90% 00:45:33.221 --> 00:45:35.460 align:middle line:90% I'm not usually this like-- 00:45:35.460 --> 00:45:37.010 align:middle line:90% I only had one drink too. 00:45:37.010 --> 00:45:39.986 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:45:39.986 --> 00:45:42.745 align:middle line:90% 00:45:42.745 --> 00:45:43.870 align:middle line:90% It's-- you know what it is? 00:45:43.870 --> 00:45:45.120 align:middle line:90% It's the coldness of the room. 00:45:45.120 --> 00:45:49.300 align:middle line:84% I'm trying to do something to get heat in here. 00:45:49.300 --> 00:45:51.230 align:middle line:90% Would you like my jacket? 00:45:51.230 --> 00:45:51.730 align:middle line:90% No. 00:45:51.730 --> 00:45:53.620 align:middle line:90% I don't mean that kind of cold. 00:45:53.620 --> 00:45:56.240 align:middle line:90% I mean, you know-- 00:45:56.240 --> 00:45:56.740 align:middle line:90% all right. 00:45:56.740 --> 00:46:01.690 align:middle line:84% This is-- Brenda Hillman, a poet friend asked me for a poem 00:46:01.690 --> 00:46:03.530 align:middle line:90% with a garden in it. 00:46:03.530 --> 00:46:06.010 align:middle line:90% And so this is what she got. 00:46:06.010 --> 00:46:08.770 align:middle line:90% 00:46:08.770 --> 00:46:10.210 align:middle line:90% It's called "Elegy in August." 00:46:10.210 --> 00:46:13.170 align:middle line:90% 00:46:13.170 --> 00:46:17.760 align:middle line:84% "Guess again at the brown birds' queue. 00:46:17.760 --> 00:46:19.180 align:middle line:90% It is dry. 00:46:19.180 --> 00:46:20.550 align:middle line:90% This is dry again. 00:46:20.550 --> 00:46:23.040 align:middle line:90% And so also, still dry. 00:46:23.040 --> 00:46:26.850 align:middle line:84% So dry, it could be a French repetition, not weather at all. 00:46:26.850 --> 00:46:29.910 align:middle line:84% Filament follies, skirmishes, decor 00:46:29.910 --> 00:46:34.080 align:middle line:84% of the flat chested actress with thin lips. 00:46:34.080 --> 00:46:36.360 align:middle line:84% Enhancement of the singular does not count, 00:46:36.360 --> 00:46:39.240 align:middle line:84% or else this is an event among thieves and the women 00:46:39.240 --> 00:46:41.250 align:middle line:90% who belong to the thieves. 00:46:41.250 --> 00:46:45.870 align:middle line:84% So dry, so many, so common, the twilight brown bird, 00:46:45.870 --> 00:46:50.340 align:middle line:84% the accretion of musical numbers counting so. 00:46:50.340 --> 00:46:53.520 align:middle line:84% But garden, only hymns and slight 00:46:53.520 --> 00:46:55.560 align:middle line:84% poems to praise her to her grave. 00:46:55.560 --> 00:46:57.540 align:middle line:90% But garden, we were there. 00:46:57.540 --> 00:46:58.230 align:middle line:90% We listened. 00:46:58.230 --> 00:47:00.420 align:middle line:84% Michael had been invited to a convocation. 00:47:00.420 --> 00:47:02.040 align:middle line:90% He is adored in other countries. 00:47:02.040 --> 00:47:07.110 align:middle line:84% Michael, only hymns and slight poems, only counted stones. 00:47:07.110 --> 00:47:11.040 align:middle line:84% But garden, and yet in the heady nomenclature of the newly dead, 00:47:11.040 --> 00:47:12.750 align:middle line:90% there are forgotten words. 00:47:12.750 --> 00:47:15.690 align:middle line:84% Hollyhock, cornflower, foxglove. 00:47:15.690 --> 00:47:16.780 align:middle line:90% I dare you. 00:47:16.780 --> 00:47:19.860 align:middle line:84% I dare you to unplant the daisies under glass. 00:47:19.860 --> 00:47:21.480 align:middle line:90% Only white flowers grow. 00:47:21.480 --> 00:47:26.580 align:middle line:84% But Michael, mes jardins, angel, is a season coming next? 00:47:26.580 --> 00:47:30.100 align:middle line:84% Or easily stranded with the worried bird, the brown bird, 00:47:30.100 --> 00:47:31.680 align:middle line:90% twilight, the white flame. 00:47:31.680 --> 00:47:33.000 align:middle line:90% Is reason coming? 00:47:33.000 --> 00:47:34.350 align:middle line:90% Is this your curtain? 00:47:34.350 --> 00:47:37.890 align:middle line:84% To be so lovingly displayed as Michael's worth lilies, 00:47:37.890 --> 00:47:41.820 align:middle line:84% Queen Anne's lace with the night eyed ghost planted these. 00:47:41.820 --> 00:47:43.380 align:middle line:90% Is it your garden? 00:47:43.380 --> 00:47:45.510 align:middle line:90% Stone arch, bed, broken root. 00:47:45.510 --> 00:47:46.980 align:middle line:90% Is it your garden, Michael? 00:47:46.980 --> 00:47:48.030 align:middle line:90% Your twilight? 00:47:48.030 --> 00:47:51.720 align:middle line:84% The roses were stolen from China with tea." 00:47:51.720 --> 00:47:58.100 align:middle line:90% 00:47:58.100 --> 00:48:01.140 align:middle line:90% OK, second poem. 00:48:01.140 --> 00:48:02.900 align:middle line:90% It's very splintered. 00:48:02.900 --> 00:48:04.580 align:middle line:90% It's called "To and So." 00:48:04.580 --> 00:48:08.510 align:middle line:90% 00:48:08.510 --> 00:48:09.870 align:middle line:90% I've read it once. 00:48:09.870 --> 00:48:12.290 align:middle line:90% So I'll give it another try. 00:48:12.290 --> 00:48:14.090 align:middle line:90% "To And So." 00:48:14.090 --> 00:48:20.150 align:middle line:84% "Unalterable complex, unfurled shed came this way unslithered. 00:48:20.150 --> 00:48:25.040 align:middle line:84% Purchase factored in as noise following personal revelations 00:48:25.040 --> 00:48:25.910 align:middle line:90% of the suit. 00:48:25.910 --> 00:48:30.560 align:middle line:84% Swiftly, swiftly, then glazed over visual 00:48:30.560 --> 00:48:35.090 align:middle line:84% to amplitude of signs, crank imperatives, tides 00:48:35.090 --> 00:48:38.270 align:middle line:84% of exact ephemera held or foretold 00:48:38.270 --> 00:48:41.660 align:middle line:84% to the graduated sweetness of a perfect impasse, 00:48:41.660 --> 00:48:46.370 align:middle line:84% swindle, can't, ribs cut out, two episodes. 00:48:46.370 --> 00:48:47.660 align:middle line:90% Oh, oh, oh. 00:48:47.660 --> 00:48:51.620 align:middle line:84% The reporter lonely in Istanbul, carpets, tea, 00:48:51.620 --> 00:48:56.030 align:middle line:84% blue glass, bridge, to perfect these household gods, 00:48:56.030 --> 00:48:59.540 align:middle line:84% eyes against envy, beads against expectation, 00:48:59.540 --> 00:49:01.580 align:middle line:90% more stones, more letters. 00:49:01.580 --> 00:49:04.340 align:middle line:84% And so the symmetry of good windows 00:49:04.340 --> 00:49:09.290 align:middle line:84% set to remember in distant times how facts looked blank 00:49:09.290 --> 00:49:12.320 align:middle line:84% under thrall of a prerequisite doubt. 00:49:12.320 --> 00:49:16.850 align:middle line:84% Nothing de-fragged there, only terse contractions enjoyed up 00:49:16.850 --> 00:49:22.850 align:middle line:84% close, riddle, quim, apparition, clear eyed, yes, but something, 00:49:22.850 --> 00:49:27.200 align:middle line:84% it seduces even the greatest soldier to minor treason, 00:49:27.200 --> 00:49:32.180 align:middle line:84% infatuated tables slanted up, legs raised, emotion of tears, 00:49:32.180 --> 00:49:36.320 align:middle line:84% quotidian exhaled, a farewell of sorts under logic, 00:49:36.320 --> 00:49:40.490 align:middle line:84% under guess, where the bug, without much left, the all made 00:49:40.490 --> 00:49:44.690 align:middle line:84% small, diligent maker, shipwrecked encyclopedia, 00:49:44.690 --> 00:49:47.750 align:middle line:84% coyote racing across the graveyard 00:49:47.750 --> 00:49:51.890 align:middle line:90% toward a flock of wild turkeys. 00:49:51.890 --> 00:49:52.520 align:middle line:90% OK. 00:49:52.520 --> 00:49:57.110 align:middle line:84% So here is rain's insistent, oblique, elderly contest. 00:49:57.110 --> 00:50:01.640 align:middle line:84% She who would have seemed before this task what had resembled 00:50:01.640 --> 00:50:05.660 align:middle line:84% but now abstract, global, and abbreviated costs. 00:50:05.660 --> 00:50:09.320 align:middle line:84% There will be no generals in our army of thieves, 00:50:09.320 --> 00:50:12.590 align:middle line:84% and the big library will discover little poems. 00:50:12.590 --> 00:50:17.300 align:middle line:84% There is always violence and clean elaborations of such. 00:50:17.300 --> 00:50:18.214 align:middle line:90% What? 00:50:18.214 --> 00:50:19.130 align:middle line:90% What? 00:50:19.130 --> 00:50:22.250 align:middle line:90% You want to ask, what? 00:50:22.250 --> 00:50:26.510 align:middle line:84% Unjust equation, night is night closes on a simple thing, 00:50:26.510 --> 00:50:30.290 align:middle line:84% recurrent in the kneeling air, collapse of particulars. 00:50:30.290 --> 00:50:31.250 align:middle line:90% Say, leaf. 00:50:31.250 --> 00:50:32.180 align:middle line:90% Say, drip. 00:50:32.180 --> 00:50:35.150 align:middle line:84% What is required is attached at the outer rim. 00:50:35.150 --> 00:50:40.190 align:middle line:84% We, in our love, also indicted, because the frame extends only 00:50:40.190 --> 00:50:44.600 align:middle line:84% so far, then around a corner, then descent, gradual glide 00:50:44.600 --> 00:50:46.340 align:middle line:90% into viscous air. 00:50:46.340 --> 00:50:47.240 align:middle line:90% Again. 00:50:47.240 --> 00:50:48.200 align:middle line:90% Up again. 00:50:48.200 --> 00:50:49.670 align:middle line:90% Is this another never? 00:50:49.670 --> 00:50:50.780 align:middle line:90% Another cell? 00:50:50.780 --> 00:50:52.550 align:middle line:90% Another impossible procedure? 00:50:52.550 --> 00:50:53.570 align:middle line:90% Another x? 00:50:53.570 --> 00:50:56.020 align:middle line:90% Another unsayable-- 00:50:56.020 --> 00:51:06.000 align:middle line:90%