WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.200 align:middle line:90% 00:00:02.200 --> 00:00:03.972 align:middle line:90% You know what the Rapture is? 00:00:03.972 --> 00:00:05.430 align:middle line:84% It's a big deal in the South, maybe 00:00:05.430 --> 00:00:07.013 align:middle line:84% it's a big deal in the Southwest, too. 00:00:07.013 --> 00:00:12.540 align:middle line:84% Rapture is when everybody goes up, you know, it happens. 00:00:12.540 --> 00:00:14.010 align:middle line:90% If I just go straight up. 00:00:14.010 --> 00:00:22.930 align:middle line:90% 00:00:22.930 --> 00:00:24.830 align:middle line:90% March Journal. 00:00:24.830 --> 00:00:29.380 align:middle line:84% It's a different March than what we have around here. 00:00:29.380 --> 00:00:32.770 align:middle line:84% I use the "we" because I used to live out West too. 00:00:32.770 --> 00:00:34.420 align:middle line:90% March Journal. 00:00:34.420 --> 00:00:37.180 align:middle line:84% After the Rapture comes and everyone 00:00:37.180 --> 00:00:41.290 align:middle line:84% goes away quicker than cream in a cat's mouth, all of them gone 00:00:41.290 --> 00:00:44.620 align:middle line:84% in an endless slipknot down the sky, and its pink tongue 00:00:44.620 --> 00:00:48.070 align:middle line:84% into the black hole of somewhere else, 00:00:48.070 --> 00:00:50.200 align:middle line:90% what will we do? 00:00:50.200 --> 00:00:53.230 align:middle line:84% Left with the empty spaces of our lives intact, 00:00:53.230 --> 00:00:56.350 align:middle line:84% the radio frequency still unchanged, 00:00:56.350 --> 00:01:00.490 align:middle line:84% the same houses up for sale, same books unread, 00:01:00.490 --> 00:01:03.970 align:middle line:84% all comfort gone and its comforting... 00:01:03.970 --> 00:01:07.150 align:middle line:84% For us, the Earth is a turbulent rest; 00:01:07.150 --> 00:01:10.510 align:middle line:84% a different bed altogether and kinder than that-- 00:01:10.510 --> 00:01:13.630 align:middle line:84% After the first death is the second. 00:01:13.630 --> 00:01:19.420 align:middle line:84% A little fire in the afterglow, somewhere to warm your hands. 00:01:19.420 --> 00:01:24.190 align:middle line:84% The clean, clear line, incised, unbleeding, sharp, 00:01:24.190 --> 00:01:27.670 align:middle line:84% and declarative as a cut, the instant before the blood 00:01:27.670 --> 00:01:28.390 align:middle line:90% wells out. 00:01:28.390 --> 00:01:30.940 align:middle line:90% [COUGHING] 00:01:30.940 --> 00:01:34.120 align:middle line:90% March blues. 00:01:34.120 --> 00:01:37.840 align:middle line:84% The insides were blue, the color of power putty. 00:01:37.840 --> 00:01:42.700 align:middle line:84% When Luke dissected the dogfish, the plastic blue in the whey, 00:01:42.700 --> 00:01:46.570 align:middle line:84% sharkskin infenestrated: its severed tail fin 00:01:46.570 --> 00:01:49.540 align:middle line:84% bobbed like a wing nut in another pan. 00:01:49.540 --> 00:01:53.230 align:middle line:84% As he explained the dye job and what connected with what, 00:01:53.230 --> 00:01:55.960 align:middle line:84% its pursed lips skewed and pointed 00:01:55.960 --> 00:01:58.090 align:middle line:90% straight-lined at the ceiling. 00:01:58.090 --> 00:02:03.040 align:middle line:90% The insides so blue, so blue. 00:02:03.040 --> 00:02:06.430 align:middle line:84% March gets its second wind, starlings high shine 00:02:06.430 --> 00:02:09.370 align:middle line:84% in the trees as dread puts his left foot down and then 00:02:09.370 --> 00:02:11.320 align:middle line:90% the other. 00:02:11.320 --> 00:02:14.080 align:middle line:84% Buds hold their breaths and sit tight, 00:02:14.080 --> 00:02:16.360 align:middle line:84% the weeping cherries lower their languorous necks 00:02:16.360 --> 00:02:19.300 align:middle line:84% and nibble the grass sprout ends that jump head first 00:02:19.300 --> 00:02:21.100 align:middle line:90% from the ground. 00:02:21.100 --> 00:02:27.280 align:middle line:84% Magnolia drums blue weight next door when the sun is right. 00:02:27.280 --> 00:02:29.320 align:middle line:84% Rhythm comes from the roots of the world, 00:02:29.320 --> 00:02:31.630 align:middle line:90% rehearsed and expandable. 00:02:31.630 --> 00:02:34.520 align:middle line:90% 00:02:34.520 --> 00:02:37.640 align:middle line:84% After the ice storm, a shower of crystal down from the trees 00:02:37.640 --> 00:02:39.920 align:middle line:84% shattering over the ground, like cut glass 00:02:39.920 --> 00:02:41.810 align:middle line:90% twirling its rainbows. 00:02:41.810 --> 00:02:45.080 align:middle line:84% Sunlight in flushed layers under the clouds, 00:02:45.080 --> 00:02:47.930 align:middle line:84% twirling and disappearing into the clenched March grass. 00:02:47.930 --> 00:02:50.570 align:middle line:90% 00:02:50.570 --> 00:02:54.660 align:middle line:84% Structure is binary, intent on a resolution, 00:02:54.660 --> 00:02:56.930 align:middle line:84% its parts tight but the whole loose 00:02:56.930 --> 00:03:00.418 align:middle line:90% and endlessly repetitious. 00:03:00.418 --> 00:03:04.410 align:middle line:84% And here we stand, caught in the crucifixion noon 00:03:04.410 --> 00:03:07.620 align:middle line:84% with its bled, attendant bells, and nothing 00:03:07.620 --> 00:03:09.420 align:middle line:90% to answer back with. 00:03:09.420 --> 00:03:12.480 align:middle line:84% Forsythia purrs in its burning shell, 00:03:12.480 --> 00:03:15.810 align:middle line:84% jonquils, like Dante's angels, appear from their blue shoots. 00:03:15.810 --> 00:03:18.640 align:middle line:90% 00:03:18.640 --> 00:03:20.500 align:middle line:84% How can we think to know of another's 00:03:20.500 --> 00:03:25.150 align:middle line:84% desire for darkness, that low coo like a dove's, 00:03:25.150 --> 00:03:28.460 align:middle line:84% insistent outside the heart's window? 00:03:28.460 --> 00:03:31.120 align:middle line:90% How can we think to think this? 00:03:31.120 --> 00:03:33.190 align:middle line:84% How can we sit here crossing out line 00:03:33.190 --> 00:03:37.600 align:middle line:84% after line, such five finger exercises up and down, learning 00:03:37.600 --> 00:03:42.830 align:middle line:84% our scales, and say that all quartets are eschatological 00:03:42.830 --> 00:03:44.650 align:middle line:90% heuristically 00:03:44.650 --> 00:03:46.510 align:middle line:84% when the willow swim like Medusas 00:03:46.510 --> 00:03:49.870 align:middle line:84% through the trees, their skins beginning to blister 00:03:49.870 --> 00:03:52.270 align:middle line:90% into 1,000 green welts? 00:03:52.270 --> 00:03:57.970 align:middle line:84% How can we think to know these things, clouds like full suds 00:03:57.970 --> 00:04:02.620 align:middle line:84% in the sky keeping away, keeping away? 00:04:02.620 --> 00:04:08.580 align:middle line:84% Form is finite, an undestroyable hush over all things. 00:04:08.580 --> 00:04:10.000 align:middle line:90%