WEBVTT

00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.230 align:middle line:84%
The first poem-- now I
have reading glasses.

00:00:04.230 --> 00:00:07.908 align:middle line:84%
So the first poem is
a kind of benediction

00:00:07.908 --> 00:00:10.450 align:middle line:84%
and I thought that was kind of
nice, to open with a blessing.

00:00:10.450 --> 00:00:12.450 align:middle line:84%
It's called "Gloria
Mundi," and it's

00:00:12.450 --> 00:00:15.150 align:middle line:84%
the first poem that will
be in the Piedra book.

00:00:15.150 --> 00:00:15.870 align:middle line:90%
It's short.

00:00:15.870 --> 00:00:18.870 align:middle line:84%
Might be the last short
poem I do tonight.

00:00:18.870 --> 00:00:21.960 align:middle line:90%
"Gloria Mundi."

00:00:21.960 --> 00:00:27.270 align:middle line:84%
Mountains unseen,
split, spit red thunder,

00:00:27.270 --> 00:00:30.390 align:middle line:90%
all life in excess.

00:00:30.390 --> 00:00:35.310 align:middle line:84%
The drop of milk rises pearly
to nipples peak and trembles

00:00:35.310 --> 00:00:36.600 align:middle line:90%
for a mouth.

00:00:36.600 --> 00:00:38.700 align:middle line:90%
Live rain.

00:00:38.700 --> 00:00:42.720 align:middle line:84%
What need does
beauty have of us?

00:00:42.720 --> 00:00:46.710 align:middle line:84%
This kernel of corn
holds within itself

00:00:46.710 --> 00:00:51.180 align:middle line:84%
every meal by through time
cracked in a mouse's teeth,

00:00:51.180 --> 00:00:56.880 align:middle line:84%
flee upon its back, wanders
aspen glades of fur.

00:00:56.880 --> 00:01:00.150 align:middle line:84%
Obsidian ceremonial
dagger driven

00:01:00.150 --> 00:01:07.190 align:middle line:84%
in sips crimson platelets
from the same heart as mine.

00:01:07.190 --> 00:01:11.040 align:middle line:84%
Virgen de Guadalupe,
pray for us.

00:01:11.040 --> 00:01:15.860 align:middle line:90%
Tonantzin, pray for us.

00:01:15.860 --> 00:01:20.472 align:middle line:90%
Malinche, pray for us.

00:01:20.472 --> 00:01:23.420 align:middle line:90%
[? Tlazoteotl ?], pray for us.

00:01:23.420 --> 00:01:26.200 align:middle line:90%
Santa Sabina, pray for us.

00:01:26.200 --> 00:01:29.030 align:middle line:90%
Hechicera, pray for us.

00:01:29.030 --> 00:01:32.480 align:middle line:90%
Profesora, pray for us.

00:01:32.480 --> 00:01:35.810 align:middle line:90%
Despeinada, pray for us.

00:01:35.810 --> 00:01:39.730 align:middle line:90%
Chola, pray for us.

00:01:39.730 --> 00:01:42.000 align:middle line:90%