WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.690 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.690 --> 00:00:05.670 align:middle line:84% These are all love poems, or prayers, as you see fit. 00:00:05.670 --> 00:00:10.230 align:middle line:84% Are you referring to God-- maybe capitalized or not? 00:00:10.230 --> 00:00:12.870 align:middle line:84% A series of poems titled "Underneath" in this book-- 00:00:12.870 --> 00:00:16.050 align:middle line:84% this one is "Underneath (9)"-- again, a poem I've never read. 00:00:16.050 --> 00:00:19.470 align:middle line:90% Persephone appears in it. 00:00:19.470 --> 00:00:20.820 align:middle line:90% These are love poems. 00:00:20.820 --> 00:00:25.975 align:middle line:84% They're hard to read to you guys. 00:00:25.975 --> 00:00:33.150 align:middle line:90% 00:00:33.150 --> 00:00:35.940 align:middle line:84% This has got four sections-- spring, summer, 00:00:35.940 --> 00:00:39.580 align:middle line:84% and you can guess what the other two are. 00:00:39.580 --> 00:00:40.080 align:middle line:90% "Spring. 00:00:40.080 --> 00:00:46.570 align:middle line:90% 00:00:46.570 --> 00:00:49.490 align:middle line:84% Up, up you go, you must be introduced. 00:00:49.490 --> 00:00:52.030 align:middle line:90% 00:00:52.030 --> 00:00:55.780 align:middle line:90% You must learn belonging to-- 00:00:55.780 --> 00:00:58.870 align:middle line:90% no one. 00:00:58.870 --> 00:01:01.780 align:middle line:90% Drenched in the white veil-- 00:01:01.780 --> 00:01:03.910 align:middle line:90% day. 00:01:03.910 --> 00:01:10.080 align:middle line:84% The circle of minutes pushed gleaming onto your finger. 00:01:10.080 --> 00:01:15.820 align:middle line:84% Gaps pocking the brightness where you try to see in. 00:01:15.820 --> 00:01:21.490 align:middle line:84% Missing corners, fields, completeness-- 00:01:21.490 --> 00:01:28.060 align:middle line:84% holes growing in it where the eyes look hardest. 00:01:28.060 --> 00:01:33.910 align:middle line:84% Below, his chest, a sacred weightless place, 00:01:33.910 --> 00:01:39.580 align:middle line:84% and the small weight of your open hand on it. 00:01:39.580 --> 00:01:44.020 align:middle line:84% And these legs, look, still yours, after all you've 00:01:44.020 --> 00:01:45.850 align:middle line:90% done with them. 00:01:45.850 --> 00:01:50.020 align:middle line:90% Explain the six missing seeds. 00:01:50.020 --> 00:01:52.900 align:middle line:90% Explain muzzled. 00:01:52.900 --> 00:01:59.980 align:middle line:84% Explain tongue breaks, thin fire in eyes. 00:01:59.980 --> 00:02:02.320 align:middle line:90% Learn what the great garden-- 00:02:02.320 --> 00:02:04.000 align:middle line:90% up, up you go-- 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:09.280 align:middle line:84% exteriority, exhales-- the green nevertheless, 00:02:09.280 --> 00:02:12.370 align:middle line:84% the green who-did-you-say-you-are, 00:02:12.370 --> 00:02:16.870 align:middle line:84% and how it seems to stare all the time, that green, 00:02:16.870 --> 00:02:20.800 align:middle line:84% until night blinds it temporarily. 00:02:20.800 --> 00:02:24.970 align:middle line:84% What is it searching for, all the leaves turning towards you. 00:02:24.970 --> 00:02:28.630 align:middle line:84% Breath the emptiest of the freedoms. 00:02:28.630 --> 00:02:31.840 align:middle line:84% When will they notice the hole in your head-- 00:02:31.840 --> 00:02:33.670 align:middle line:90% they won't. 00:02:33.670 --> 00:02:37.150 align:middle line:84% When will they feel for the hole in your chest-- 00:02:37.150 --> 00:02:38.530 align:middle line:90% never. 00:02:38.530 --> 00:02:40.510 align:middle line:90% Up, go. 00:02:40.510 --> 00:02:45.610 align:middle line:84% Let being-seen drift over you again, sticky kindness. 00:02:45.610 --> 00:02:50.680 align:middle line:84% Those wet strangely unstill eyes filling their heads-- 00:02:50.680 --> 00:02:53.320 align:middle line:90% thinking or sight? 00:02:53.320 --> 00:02:56.470 align:middle line:90% All waiting for the true story-- 00:02:56.470 --> 00:02:59.020 align:middle line:84% your heart beating its little song-- 00:02:59.020 --> 00:03:00.980 align:middle line:90% explain. 00:03:00.980 --> 00:03:03.820 align:middle line:90% Explain requited. 00:03:03.820 --> 00:03:09.250 align:middle line:84% Explain indeed the blood of your lives I will require. 00:03:09.250 --> 00:03:14.440 align:middle line:84% Explain the strange weight of meanwhile. 00:03:14.440 --> 00:03:17.710 align:middle line:84% And there exists another death in regard 00:03:17.710 --> 00:03:21.850 align:middle line:90% to which we are not immortal. 00:03:21.850 --> 00:03:27.970 align:middle line:84% Variegated, dappled, spangled, intricately wrought, 00:03:27.970 --> 00:03:34.930 align:middle line:84% complicated, abstruse, subtle, devious, scintillating 00:03:34.930 --> 00:03:39.790 align:middle line:90% with change and ambiguity. 00:03:39.790 --> 00:03:42.040 align:middle line:90% Summer. 00:03:42.040 --> 00:03:45.520 align:middle line:90% Explain two are. 00:03:45.520 --> 00:03:50.020 align:middle line:90% Explain not one. 00:03:50.020 --> 00:03:55.030 align:middle line:90% In theory-- and in practice. 00:03:55.030 --> 00:04:00.070 align:middle line:84% Blurry, my love, like a right quotation, 00:04:00.070 --> 00:04:05.830 align:middle line:84% wanting so to sink back down, you washing me in soil now, 00:04:05.830 --> 00:04:09.220 align:middle line:84% my shoulders dust, my rippling dust. 00:04:09.220 --> 00:04:12.850 align:middle line:84% Look, I'll scrub the dirt, listen. 00:04:12.850 --> 00:04:16.060 align:middle line:90% Up here, how will I-- not-- 00:04:16.060 --> 00:04:17.470 align:middle line:90% hold you. 00:04:17.470 --> 00:04:22.720 align:middle line:84% Where is the dirt packed in again, around us, between us, 00:04:22.720 --> 00:04:25.810 align:middle line:90% obliterating difference. 00:04:25.810 --> 00:04:28.990 align:middle line:90% Must one leave off. 00:04:28.990 --> 00:04:33.490 align:middle line:90% Explain edges-- tongue breaks-- 00:04:33.490 --> 00:04:37.240 align:middle line:90% thin fire-- in eyes. 00:04:37.240 --> 00:04:39.190 align:middle line:90% And bless. 00:04:39.190 --> 00:04:41.530 align:middle line:90% And blame. 00:04:41.530 --> 00:04:43.600 align:middle line:90% Moonless night. 00:04:43.600 --> 00:04:46.580 align:middle line:90% Vase in the kitchen. 00:04:46.580 --> 00:04:47.080 align:middle line:90% Fall. 00:04:47.080 --> 00:04:50.290 align:middle line:90% 00:04:50.290 --> 00:04:55.390 align:middle line:84% Explain duty to remain to the end. 00:04:55.390 --> 00:05:00.095 align:middle line:84% Duty not to run away from the good. 00:05:00.095 --> 00:05:02.080 align:middle line:90% The good. 00:05:02.080 --> 00:05:04.960 align:middle line:90% Beauty is not an issue. 00:05:04.960 --> 00:05:08.620 align:middle line:90% A wise man wants? 00:05:08.620 --> 00:05:11.400 align:middle line:90% A master. 00:05:11.400 --> 00:05:13.650 align:middle line:90% Winter. 00:05:13.650 --> 00:05:19.800 align:middle line:84% Oh my beloved, I speak of the absolute jewels. 00:05:19.800 --> 00:05:24.060 align:middle line:90% Dwelling in place, for example. 00:05:24.060 --> 00:05:26.850 align:middle line:90% In fluted listening. 00:05:26.850 --> 00:05:32.490 align:middle line:84% In panting waters human-skinned to the horizon. 00:05:32.490 --> 00:05:34.890 align:middle line:90% Muzzled the deep. 00:05:34.890 --> 00:05:38.100 align:middle line:90% Fermenting the surface. 00:05:38.100 --> 00:05:41.380 align:middle line:90% Wrecks left at the bottom, yes. 00:05:41.380 --> 00:05:44.070 align:middle line:90% Space birdless. 00:05:44.070 --> 00:05:47.040 align:middle line:84% Light, in it, a woman on her knees-- her having 00:05:47.040 --> 00:05:50.070 align:middle line:90% kneeled everywhere already. 00:05:50.070 --> 00:05:53.700 align:middle line:90% God's laughter unquenchable. 00:05:53.700 --> 00:05:57.570 align:middle line:84% Back there its river ripped into pieces, length gone, 00:05:57.570 --> 00:06:00.780 align:middle line:90% buried in parts, in sand. 00:06:00.780 --> 00:06:04.560 align:middle line:84% Believe me, I speak now for the sand. 00:06:04.560 --> 00:06:08.160 align:middle line:84% Here at the front end, the narrator. 00:06:08.160 --> 00:06:11.220 align:middle line:84% At the front end, the meanwhile-- 00:06:11.220 --> 00:06:13.140 align:middle line:90% God's laughter. 00:06:13.140 --> 00:06:16.020 align:middle line:84% Are you still waiting for the true story? 00:06:16.020 --> 00:06:17.760 align:middle line:90% God's laughter. 00:06:17.760 --> 00:06:21.450 align:middle line:84% The difference between what is and could be? 00:06:21.450 --> 00:06:23.370 align:middle line:90% God's laughter. 00:06:23.370 --> 00:06:26.880 align:middle line:84% In this dance, the people do not move. 00:06:26.880 --> 00:06:32.280 align:middle line:84% Deferred, defined, obstructed, hungry, 00:06:32.280 --> 00:06:37.140 align:middle line:84% organized around, a radiant absence. 00:06:37.140 --> 00:06:42.170 align:middle line:84% In His dance, the people do not move."