WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.720 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.720 --> 00:00:04.560 align:middle line:84% And then one more poem from this book, again about-- 00:00:04.560 --> 00:00:07.892 align:middle line:84% as I said-- about that place called Blackwater Mountain. 00:00:07.892 --> 00:00:09.600 align:middle line:84% And I think there is Blackwater Mountain. 00:00:09.600 --> 00:00:11.870 align:middle line:90% It's all the same place. 00:00:11.870 --> 00:00:15.890 align:middle line:84% Well, this is about the son whom I finally 00:00:15.890 --> 00:00:19.580 align:middle line:84% forgive [LAUGHS] for sending me into that damn lake 00:00:19.580 --> 00:00:21.980 align:middle line:84% to go after that duck that he shot on the water, 00:00:21.980 --> 00:00:23.840 align:middle line:84% and letting me stay in there for five hours 00:00:23.840 --> 00:00:29.828 align:middle line:84% or however long it was while he sat up by the fire. 00:00:29.828 --> 00:00:31.370 align:middle line:84% How can you shoot a duck on the water 00:00:31.370 --> 00:00:33.530 align:middle line:90% when you're a vicar of Christ? 00:00:33.530 --> 00:00:35.120 align:middle line:90% Anyhow. 00:00:35.120 --> 00:00:37.933 align:middle line:90% "Blackwater Mountain." 00:00:37.933 --> 00:00:39.350 align:middle line:84% In this poem I didn't forgive him. 00:00:39.350 --> 00:00:40.760 align:middle line:90% I do now. 00:00:40.760 --> 00:00:44.510 align:middle line:90% I'm older and less wise. 00:00:44.510 --> 00:00:46.930 align:middle line:84% "That time of evening, weightless and desperate. 00:00:46.930 --> 00:00:50.030 align:middle line:84% When the loon cries, when the small bats jostle 00:00:50.030 --> 00:00:51.230 align:middle line:90% the lake's reflections. 00:00:51.230 --> 00:00:54.620 align:middle line:84% When the green of the oak begins to open its robes 00:00:54.620 --> 00:00:59.360 align:middle line:84% to the dark, the green of water to offer itself to the flames. 00:00:59.360 --> 00:01:02.330 align:middle line:84% When lily and lily pad husband the last light 00:01:02.330 --> 00:01:05.990 align:middle line:84% which flares like a white disease, then disappears. 00:01:05.990 --> 00:01:07.850 align:middle line:90% This is what I remember. 00:01:07.850 --> 00:01:12.440 align:middle line:84% And this, the slap of the jack light on the cove, the freeze 00:01:12.440 --> 00:01:14.360 align:middle line:90% frame of ducks below us. 00:01:14.360 --> 00:01:16.580 align:middle line:84% Your shots, the wounded flop and skid 00:01:16.580 --> 00:01:19.130 align:middle line:90% of one bird to the thick brush. 00:01:19.130 --> 00:01:21.980 align:middle line:84% The moon of your face in the fire's glow. 00:01:21.980 --> 00:01:25.490 align:middle line:90% The cold, the darkness. 00:01:25.490 --> 00:01:27.740 align:middle line:90% Young, wanting approval. 00:01:27.740 --> 00:01:29.570 align:middle line:90% What else could I do? 00:01:29.570 --> 00:01:32.660 align:middle line:84% And did for two hours, waist deep in the lake. 00:01:32.660 --> 00:01:34.730 align:middle line:90% The thicket as black as death. 00:01:34.730 --> 00:01:39.470 align:middle line:84% Without success or reprieve, try. 00:01:39.470 --> 00:01:41.330 align:middle line:84% The stars over Blackwater Mountain 00:01:41.330 --> 00:01:44.720 align:middle line:84% still dangle and flash like hooks and ducks coast 00:01:44.720 --> 00:01:46.670 align:middle line:90% on evening water. 00:01:46.670 --> 00:01:48.740 align:middle line:90% The foliage is like applause. 00:01:48.740 --> 00:01:51.470 align:middle line:84% I stand where we stood before me, my flashlight 00:01:51.470 --> 00:01:52.880 align:middle line:90% down to the lake. 00:01:52.880 --> 00:01:57.860 align:middle line:84% A black deck explodes to my right, hangs and is gone. 00:01:57.860 --> 00:02:00.030 align:middle line:90% He shows me the way to you. 00:02:00.030 --> 00:02:02.870 align:middle line:84% He shows me the way to a different fire 00:02:02.870 --> 00:02:06.821 align:middle line:84% where you, black moon, warm your hands." 00:02:06.821 --> 00:02:07.321 align:middle line:90%