WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.420 align:middle line:90% 00:00:03.420 --> 00:00:07.380 align:middle line:84% We must start with the first poem in the book. 00:00:07.380 --> 00:00:10.890 align:middle line:84% This is "Aposiopesis" or The Field 00:00:10.890 --> 00:00:13.140 align:middle line:90% Between the Living and The Dead. 00:00:13.140 --> 00:00:16.920 align:middle line:90% 00:00:16.920 --> 00:00:24.200 align:middle line:84% And forgive me for I cannot tell you how to begin, 00:00:24.200 --> 00:00:32.850 align:middle line:84% but here is the body, like the urge to pray. 00:00:32.850 --> 00:00:36.450 align:middle line:84% Your mouth already gone, and we never 00:00:36.450 --> 00:00:42.930 align:middle line:90% said you, a boy, woman, man. 00:00:42.930 --> 00:00:47.160 align:middle line:84% Only the animal made with two hands 00:00:47.160 --> 00:00:54.630 align:middle line:84% and lost in the field waiting for human life to reenter 00:00:54.630 --> 00:01:03.030 align:middle line:84% as if through a door, broken, and yet the dead who love you, 00:01:03.030 --> 00:01:08.970 align:middle line:84% who are still remembering the touch of blood-warmed skin 00:01:08.970 --> 00:01:13.510 align:middle line:84% abandon you like every yesterday. 00:01:13.510 --> 00:01:19.180 align:middle line:84% Like this single paradise of every body's silence, 00:01:19.180 --> 00:01:26.500 align:middle line:84% rusting daylight into the only dusk we have been made to see. 00:01:26.500 --> 00:01:27.000 align:middle line:90%