WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.230 align:middle line:84% I'm going to do one more from that early section. 00:00:04.230 --> 00:00:09.620 align:middle line:84% And this one is, again, understanding 00:00:09.620 --> 00:00:13.250 align:middle line:90% the mindset of possession. 00:00:13.250 --> 00:00:16.433 align:middle line:84% Even the possession of Indigenous bodies. 00:00:16.433 --> 00:00:21.560 align:middle line:90% 00:00:21.560 --> 00:00:26.240 align:middle line:84% I want to say this is also an explanation of why 00:00:26.240 --> 00:00:28.980 align:middle line:84% I left University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. 00:00:28.980 --> 00:00:30.790 align:middle line:84% Ask me that when I sign your book. 00:00:30.790 --> 00:00:34.310 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:00:34.310 --> 00:00:36.230 align:middle line:90% Taxonomy. 00:00:36.230 --> 00:00:41.210 align:middle line:90% The ancestors live in boxes now. 00:00:41.210 --> 00:00:44.930 align:middle line:90% I live squared-- only head. 00:00:44.930 --> 00:00:50.330 align:middle line:84% The world is blue screen, is scream. 00:00:50.330 --> 00:00:56.240 align:middle line:84% Name something intact without acronyms. 00:00:56.240 --> 00:00:59.750 align:middle line:90% Morning cormorant a silhouette-- 00:00:59.750 --> 00:01:04.370 align:middle line:90% elongated in familiar, 00:01:04.370 --> 00:01:08.210 align:middle line:90% A routine of hunger then bulk. 00:01:08.210 --> 00:01:11.910 align:middle line:90% We swallow whole the impossible. 00:01:11.910 --> 00:01:14.940 align:middle line:90% No one feeds prettily. 00:01:14.940 --> 00:01:19.650 align:middle line:90% Avert your eyes, survive. 00:01:19.650 --> 00:01:26.740 align:middle line:84% The ancestors live in white cardboard boxes. 00:01:26.740 --> 00:01:28.530 align:middle line:90% I am fasting. 00:01:28.530 --> 00:01:31.480 align:middle line:90% No newsfeed or rumor. 00:01:31.480 --> 00:01:34.690 align:middle line:90% Politics, a superspreader. 00:01:34.690 --> 00:01:39.360 align:middle line:90% How we shelter in non-places. 00:01:39.360 --> 00:01:44.440 align:middle line:84% Here the hooked bill of the cormorant fields. 00:01:44.440 --> 00:01:49.630 align:middle line:84% I ignore the chat, have exited the Zoom room. 00:01:49.630 --> 00:01:58.780 align:middle line:84% My dry throat opens to swallow, convulses by reflex or instinct. 00:01:58.780 --> 00:02:03.540 align:middle line:90% Waterbirds, we live this story. 00:02:03.540 --> 00:02:10.350 align:middle line:84% Ancestors wait on shelves in numbered boxes. 00:02:10.350 --> 00:02:15.910 align:middle line:84% They dive, propel themselves with webbed feet, 00:02:15.910 --> 00:02:22.590 align:middle line:84% shaggy cormorant wings, spread wide to dry. 00:02:22.590 --> 00:02:27.660 align:middle line:84% Perhaps we are not praying when we lift our hands. 00:02:27.660 --> 00:02:31.010 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:02:31.010 --> 00:02:38.000 align:middle line:90%