WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.830 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.830 --> 00:00:06.470 align:middle line:84% Now, I'm going to read one lyric poem from my first book, 00:00:06.470 --> 00:00:08.840 align:middle line:90% The Year of Blue Water. 00:00:08.840 --> 00:00:12.200 align:middle line:84% And then the rest of the book is a sequence of prose poems. 00:00:12.200 --> 00:00:15.950 align:middle line:84% So I won't pause for titles or anything. 00:00:15.950 --> 00:00:19.040 align:middle line:84% You'll just get a slightly more dramatic pause 00:00:19.040 --> 00:00:22.820 align:middle line:90% in between sections. 00:00:22.820 --> 00:00:25.880 align:middle line:90% "Dream diary. 00:00:25.880 --> 00:00:29.330 align:middle line:84% You're awake, then you are standing, 00:00:29.330 --> 00:00:31.550 align:middle line:84% then the last thing that you dreamed 00:00:31.550 --> 00:00:34.430 align:middle line:90% will unfold its field of memory. 00:00:34.430 --> 00:00:37.280 align:middle line:84% What you touch will come to life, 00:00:37.280 --> 00:00:41.060 align:middle line:84% a whole room sprung in the backwards words of people 00:00:41.060 --> 00:00:42.890 align:middle line:90% on talking to you. 00:00:42.890 --> 00:00:45.410 align:middle line:84% Walking reversed with such confidence 00:00:45.410 --> 00:00:48.110 align:middle line:90% until you reach another room. 00:00:48.110 --> 00:00:51.890 align:middle line:84% There stands this person who is also a talisman. 00:00:51.890 --> 00:00:55.910 align:middle line:84% In the dream, it doesn't matter when they loved you. 00:00:55.910 --> 00:00:59.450 align:middle line:84% In the dream when you talk, the butterflies 00:00:59.450 --> 00:01:01.110 align:middle line:90% are orange and then blue. 00:01:01.110 --> 00:01:03.570 align:middle line:84% And together, you lead the rabble to the square 00:01:03.570 --> 00:01:07.110 align:middle line:84% where you touch this person and then leave them. 00:01:07.110 --> 00:01:10.050 align:middle line:84% And on cue, a flock of pigeons will soon 00:01:10.050 --> 00:01:12.600 align:middle line:84% want nothing but to return to you. 00:01:12.600 --> 00:01:16.110 align:middle line:84% And on cue, the cedars become green and then stone. 00:01:16.110 --> 00:01:18.600 align:middle line:84% This person unmaking love from you 00:01:18.600 --> 00:01:23.520 align:middle line:84% and placing the pieces elsewhere again on Earth 00:01:23.520 --> 00:01:27.030 align:middle line:84% until before that, until the somewhere else 00:01:27.030 --> 00:01:30.430 align:middle line:90% before you agreed to move. 00:01:30.430 --> 00:01:34.890 align:middle line:84% Then you are language too, backwards words 00:01:34.890 --> 00:01:38.980 align:middle line:84% unstuck to the dream as the dream began to happen. 00:01:38.980 --> 00:01:41.580 align:middle line:84% And the ghosts inside the many rooms 00:01:41.580 --> 00:01:44.850 align:middle line:84% rustle nude inside the blue water. 00:01:44.850 --> 00:01:47.520 align:middle line:84% And the ghosts inside the many rooms 00:01:47.520 --> 00:01:50.450 align:middle line:90% illuminate the many walls." 00:01:50.450 --> 00:01:51.000 align:middle line:90%