WEBVTT

00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.280 align:middle line:90%


00:00:01.280 --> 00:00:03.940 align:middle line:84%
I was mentioning
the female rain.

00:00:03.940 --> 00:00:07.440 align:middle line:90%


00:00:07.440 --> 00:00:11.000 align:middle line:90%
The rain is because it's female.

00:00:11.000 --> 00:00:14.020 align:middle line:84%
I was playing with the
image of rain and water,

00:00:14.020 --> 00:00:18.680 align:middle line:84%
and my son and his
wife are expecting

00:00:18.680 --> 00:00:20.820 align:middle line:90%
their second child any day now.

00:00:20.820 --> 00:00:22.440 align:middle line:90%
It's going to be a little boy.

00:00:22.440 --> 00:00:24.640 align:middle line:90%
So we're very thrilled for that.

00:00:24.640 --> 00:00:29.960 align:middle line:84%
And so I had a poem
for my granddaughter,

00:00:29.960 --> 00:00:35.000 align:middle line:84%
and for some reason,
I brought the draft,

00:00:35.000 --> 00:00:41.080 align:middle line:84%
but I'm not going to read it
because it's not ready yet.

00:00:41.080 --> 00:00:43.720 align:middle line:84%
Several years ago,
the Grand Canyon

00:00:43.720 --> 00:00:45.860 align:middle line:90%
was having its anniversary.

00:00:45.860 --> 00:00:48.440 align:middle line:90%
So this is a poem about that.

00:00:48.440 --> 00:00:50.680 align:middle line:90%
"My eyes are small:

00:00:50.680 --> 00:00:53.680 align:middle line:90%
an homage to the Grand Canyon.

00:00:53.680 --> 00:00:55.440 align:middle line:90%
My eyes are small.

00:00:55.440 --> 00:01:00.400 align:middle line:84%
They take only tiny licks
at the walls of this canyon.

00:01:00.400 --> 00:01:03.380 align:middle line:84%
My ears pick up my
late brother's steps

00:01:03.380 --> 00:01:06.760 align:middle line:90%
Cracking on the Kaibab trail.

00:01:06.760 --> 00:01:09.320 align:middle line:90%
My voice a whisper,

00:01:09.320 --> 00:01:12.480 align:middle line:90%
A feather drifting on the wind,

00:01:12.480 --> 00:01:15.600 align:middle line:90%
And yet, my soul, immense

00:01:15.600 --> 00:01:17.360 align:middle line:90%
With the millennia of rocks

00:01:17.360 --> 00:01:25.331 align:middle line:84%
And stars, rises,
rises, rises, rises."

00:01:25.331 --> 00:01:30.060 align:middle line:90%
[APPLAUSE]

00:01:30.060 --> 00:01:31.000 align:middle line:90%