WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.320 align:middle line:90% 00:00:02.320 --> 00:00:05.760 align:middle line:84% One longer poem and then a short poem to close. 00:00:05.760 --> 00:00:09.440 align:middle line:84% And then I'll end by reading one poem of Susan's. 00:00:09.440 --> 00:00:11.440 align:middle line:84% This poem is called To One's Honor. 00:00:11.440 --> 00:00:14.380 align:middle line:84% It's in a lazy version of the Beowulf meter, 00:00:14.380 --> 00:00:16.120 align:middle line:90% which is a Hemistich. 00:00:16.120 --> 00:00:19.840 align:middle line:84% Properly in Beowulf, you would have the same number 00:00:19.840 --> 00:00:21.980 align:middle line:84% of syllables on either side of the caesura, 00:00:21.980 --> 00:00:25.520 align:middle line:84% but also the stress would be in the same place. 00:00:25.520 --> 00:00:28.000 align:middle line:84% In this poem I don't follow the stress. 00:00:28.000 --> 00:00:29.840 align:middle line:84% I just have the same number of syllables 00:00:29.840 --> 00:00:31.420 align:middle line:90% on either side of the caesura. 00:00:31.420 --> 00:00:35.040 align:middle line:84% The idea being that it was an oral tradition meter 00:00:35.040 --> 00:00:38.880 align:middle line:84% meant to keep the song in the body. 00:00:38.880 --> 00:00:41.210 align:middle line:84% And it no longer works in modern English. 00:00:41.210 --> 00:00:45.840 align:middle line:90% 00:00:45.840 --> 00:00:46.710 align:middle line:90% To One's Honor. 00:00:46.710 --> 00:00:49.440 align:middle line:90% 00:00:49.440 --> 00:00:51.240 align:middle line:90% It's true 00:00:51.240 --> 00:00:53.780 align:middle line:90% Our trained builders say 00:00:53.780 --> 00:01:00.320 align:middle line:84% Of something without flourishes or deviation 00:01:00.320 --> 00:01:06.800 align:middle line:84% Fixed to one's honor my rumor, hearsay 00:01:06.800 --> 00:01:09.320 align:middle line:90% And wishes to the things 00:01:09.320 --> 00:01:12.280 align:middle line:90% I-- weedy thing 00:01:12.280 --> 00:01:17.510 align:middle line:84% Says right at the edge of our ages 00:01:17.510 --> 00:01:20.610 align:middle line:84% There's a circle a minute full of space 00:01:20.610 --> 00:01:25.190 align:middle line:90% Well, real, whether the calendar 00:01:25.190 --> 00:01:26.950 align:middle line:90% And the bamboo 00:01:26.950 --> 00:01:29.550 align:middle line:90% Stand in a desert spring 00:01:29.550 --> 00:01:32.850 align:middle line:90% Gray and green, and turn in time 00:01:32.850 --> 00:01:33.890 align:middle line:90% And the heat. 00:01:33.890 --> 00:01:35.350 align:middle line:90% It brings 00:01:35.350 --> 00:01:40.390 align:middle line:84% An extra first violation of me at 9 00:01:40.390 --> 00:01:44.530 align:middle line:90% Or 27, so that thereafter 00:01:44.530 --> 00:01:48.950 align:middle line:90% My necessarily welcomed fear 00:01:48.950 --> 00:01:50.510 align:middle line:90% Makes a room 00:01:50.510 --> 00:01:53.910 align:middle line:90% And puts me in it where 00:01:53.910 --> 00:01:56.270 align:middle line:90% A little simple pornography 00:01:56.270 --> 00:01:58.530 align:middle line:90% Calms me right down 00:01:58.530 --> 00:02:01.470 align:middle line:90% Takes up the space well enough 00:02:01.470 --> 00:02:02.990 align:middle line:90% And the chanted 00:02:02.990 --> 00:02:09.030 align:middle line:84% Fucking is like exquisitely formal transubstantiation 00:02:09.030 --> 00:02:11.910 align:middle line:90% I look up to address 00:02:11.910 --> 00:02:14.590 align:middle line:90% A neutral kind of shame 00:02:14.590 --> 00:02:16.610 align:middle line:90% and its awareness 00:02:16.610 --> 00:02:22.030 align:middle line:90% Lays a gentle hand on my sternum 00:02:22.030 --> 00:02:25.350 align:middle line:90% Receives or takes 00:02:25.350 --> 00:02:28.390 align:middle line:90% It's just a hand 00:02:28.390 --> 00:02:29.330 align:middle line:90% One guesses 00:02:29.330 --> 00:02:32.980 align:middle line:84% One is asking about the hands a verb 00:02:32.980 --> 00:02:34.500 align:middle line:90% One can't know 00:02:34.500 --> 00:02:35.940 align:middle line:90% What the other one 00:02:35.940 --> 00:02:39.420 align:middle line:90% Does under one's hand 00:02:39.420 --> 00:02:43.100 align:middle line:90% What does one want to know 00:02:43.100 --> 00:02:45.820 align:middle line:90% If after the speaking, 00:02:45.820 --> 00:02:48.540 align:middle line:90% The ears can admit things 00:02:48.540 --> 00:02:49.200 align:middle line:90% Again. 00:02:49.200 --> 00:02:51.300 align:middle line:90% The sounds of breath 00:02:51.300 --> 00:02:53.020 align:middle line:90% With the ghost always 00:02:53.020 --> 00:02:56.260 align:middle line:84% Of the ghost body from which they came. 00:02:56.260 --> 00:02:59.260 align:middle line:90% Think of a place without reading 00:02:59.260 --> 00:03:02.380 align:middle line:90% The word sex was sloughing 00:03:02.380 --> 00:03:05.260 align:middle line:90% Off of the child to 00:03:05.260 --> 00:03:08.100 align:middle line:90% Say, I was leaking some 00:03:08.100 --> 00:03:12.300 align:middle line:90% Release of awareness in water 00:03:12.300 --> 00:03:17.000 align:middle line:90% As rain falling down the year 00:03:17.000 --> 00:03:21.140 align:middle line:90% Who is soaking in all this paper 00:03:21.140 --> 00:03:22.780 align:middle line:90% Folded space 00:03:22.780 --> 00:03:25.460 align:middle line:90% It's really very small 00:03:25.460 --> 00:03:28.700 align:middle line:90% No feeling need be there with 00:03:28.700 --> 00:03:31.780 align:middle line:90% Me, I'm putting the words in 00:03:31.780 --> 00:03:33.980 align:middle line:90% Someone to look at 00:03:33.980 --> 00:03:36.740 align:middle line:90% As I am looking to be 00:03:36.740 --> 00:03:40.260 align:middle line:84% Where words just make another room 00:03:40.260 --> 00:03:46.690 align:middle line:84% Come round, come rain, hand here. 00:03:46.690 --> 00:03:49.000 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