WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.570 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.570 --> 00:00:03.360 align:middle line:84% So in addition to all of those things that Frances mentioned, 00:00:03.360 --> 00:00:10.070 align:middle line:84% I'm also very ill, just with the flu, nothing to worry about. 00:00:10.070 --> 00:00:13.530 align:middle line:84% But sometimes I'm prone to coughing fits in the evening, 00:00:13.530 --> 00:00:15.920 align:middle line:84% so I have cough drops, and tea, and stuff. 00:00:15.920 --> 00:00:19.620 align:middle line:84% I just wanted to warn you, I might cough. 00:00:19.620 --> 00:00:22.920 align:middle line:84% I'm supremely pleased to be reading here, 00:00:22.920 --> 00:00:24.720 align:middle line:84% I'm very glad that you all came, and I'm 00:00:24.720 --> 00:00:27.570 align:middle line:84% extremely thankful to Frances, my dear friend, 00:00:27.570 --> 00:00:31.000 align:middle line:90% for organizing this event. 00:00:31.000 --> 00:00:34.350 align:middle line:84% Going to read primarily-- can everyone hear me? 00:00:34.350 --> 00:00:34.910 align:middle line:90% Yeah? 00:00:34.910 --> 00:00:37.040 align:middle line:84% Even people who aren't sitting in the very front? 00:00:37.040 --> 00:00:38.300 align:middle line:90% OK. 00:00:38.300 --> 00:00:43.610 align:middle line:84% I'm going to read primarily from three longer series. 00:00:43.610 --> 00:00:46.280 align:middle line:84% The poems that are all in sentences 00:00:46.280 --> 00:00:48.260 align:middle line:84% is from a series, called Sentiences. 00:00:48.260 --> 00:00:50.670 align:middle line:90% And then the others-- 00:00:50.670 --> 00:00:52.700 align:middle line:84% one is the long poem, called Tendency, 00:00:52.700 --> 00:00:55.970 align:middle line:84% that I wrote for Kathy Acker just after she died, 00:00:55.970 --> 00:00:57.755 align:middle line:84% and the other is a series of letters. 00:00:57.755 --> 00:01:03.540 align:middle line:90% 00:01:03.540 --> 00:01:08.020 align:middle line:84% The denotative sky through its frame 00:01:08.020 --> 00:01:15.470 align:middle line:90% is sky, through its sky is sky. 00:01:15.470 --> 00:01:18.320 align:middle line:90% There is a boat in the distance. 00:01:18.320 --> 00:01:24.330 align:middle line:84% Curvature makes this possible and collapse. 00:01:24.330 --> 00:01:28.730 align:middle line:84% How many ways there are to pause, 00:01:28.730 --> 00:01:31.820 align:middle line:90% lifting our necks to sound. 00:01:31.820 --> 00:01:33.980 align:middle line:90% I'd ask, how are you? 00:01:33.980 --> 00:01:36.560 align:middle line:90% I would not refrain. 00:01:36.560 --> 00:01:42.120 align:middle line:84% How the fast, small birds do not shatter, 00:01:42.120 --> 00:01:47.540 align:middle line:84% how it emerges only to emerge again. 00:01:47.540 --> 00:01:50.220 align:middle line:90% I would infuse. 00:01:50.220 --> 00:01:53.220 align:middle line:84% We've resurrected the small words. 00:01:53.220 --> 00:01:56.780 align:middle line:90% It's a small boat, it's gone. 00:01:56.780 --> 00:01:59.890 align:middle line:90% Color is what lingers. 00:01:59.890 --> 00:02:03.190 align:middle line:84% There's a distance in the distance. 00:02:03.190 --> 00:02:08.750 align:middle line:84% Flying against the sky, they form a habit. 00:02:08.750 --> 00:02:13.170 align:middle line:84% I would say those clouds form a reference, not a pattern. 00:02:13.170 --> 00:02:19.310 align:middle line:84% Those birds nominated your eyes, and what your eyes see, 00:02:19.310 --> 00:02:19.985 align:middle line:90% and what-- 00:02:19.985 --> 00:02:24.150 align:middle line:90% 00:02:24.150 --> 00:02:28.580 align:middle line:84% Escaped mourning dove-- she went downstairs. 00:02:28.580 --> 00:02:30.500 align:middle line:90% All the birds were on paper. 00:02:30.500 --> 00:02:32.660 align:middle line:84% The sky is a piece of blue paper, 00:02:32.660 --> 00:02:35.330 align:middle line:84% or the sky is like a piece of blue paper, 00:02:35.330 --> 00:02:37.250 align:middle line:90% was aware of herself. 00:02:37.250 --> 00:02:41.510 align:middle line:84% All green is outside or to afford a house with windows. 00:02:41.510 --> 00:02:45.200 align:middle line:84% More than one window as a manner of scintillating the air back 00:02:45.200 --> 00:02:47.090 align:middle line:90% and forth as a she. 00:02:47.090 --> 00:02:50.360 align:middle line:84% The air is the absence of a piece of blue paper, 00:02:50.360 --> 00:02:53.900 align:middle line:84% or the air is like the absence of the piece of blue paper, 00:02:53.900 --> 00:02:57.470 align:middle line:84% or a love song to the air by royal trucks, grass 00:02:57.470 --> 00:03:00.890 align:middle line:84% on the bottoms of her feet, hot coffee, hot day, 00:03:00.890 --> 00:03:05.180 align:middle line:84% which licked telephone asked without inflection for a 2000 00:03:05.180 --> 00:03:09.550 align:middle line:84% mile taxi, or perhaps slightly less. 00:03:09.550 --> 00:03:13.060 align:middle line:84% Slightly, the cat orange would verb clawful 00:03:13.060 --> 00:03:16.360 align:middle line:84% across her being a middle floor librarian's 00:03:16.360 --> 00:03:19.540 align:middle line:84% desires with wingless, it in hand, 00:03:19.540 --> 00:03:24.340 align:middle line:84% over mindful ever numeric, yet so flusterful to remember 00:03:24.340 --> 00:03:25.540 align:middle line:90% a kind of door. 00:03:25.540 --> 00:03:28.450 align:middle line:84% That real tree, which is a kind of window, 00:03:28.450 --> 00:03:31.390 align:middle line:84% hung with real apples, glossy, up yours, 00:03:31.390 --> 00:03:35.890 align:middle line:84% in particular wonderful, who reading might violet, steady, 00:03:35.890 --> 00:03:38.230 align:middle line:84% steadily, towards a source of light, 00:03:38.230 --> 00:03:41.950 align:middle line:84% if source light has, if light was the question, being 00:03:41.950 --> 00:03:45.610 align:middle line:84% in red gloves, boxed in a Canadian love song, which 00:03:45.610 --> 00:03:48.340 align:middle line:84% geographically speaking, knew not in terms 00:03:48.340 --> 00:03:52.140 align:middle line:90% of whether all of the above. 00:03:52.140 --> 00:03:56.670 align:middle line:84% What hollowed out never ceases, insectoid, to amaze, 00:03:56.670 --> 00:04:01.770 align:middle line:84% remain yet bothersome, why, marooned to repeat, vehicular, 00:04:01.770 --> 00:04:05.100 align:middle line:84% as if unbearably singing, delightfully useless, 00:04:05.100 --> 00:04:08.340 align:middle line:84% into the ear of ear-less mispronunciation 00:04:08.340 --> 00:04:12.900 align:middle line:84% as unconfirmed in a phone booth, or more specifically, 00:04:12.900 --> 00:04:16.680 align:middle line:84% more Pacifically, in a bar called the phone booth, hello. 00:04:16.680 --> 00:04:20.220 align:middle line:84% A shadow by a plumb is, hello, hello, created 00:04:20.220 --> 00:04:24.540 align:middle line:84% equal, though soundings indicate underfoot monthly untested 00:04:24.540 --> 00:04:26.500 align:middle line:90% delicacies. 00:04:26.500 --> 00:04:27.000 align:middle line:90%