"Instead, I told him about the sandhill cranes, / the way they dance—moving into and giving way to one another, / bowing down, cresting and collapsing their wings, / necks and shoulders silver curls of smoky rhythm—/ but he didn’t believe me." - Natalie Diaz
The idea of basing a video on a poem may one day seem as natural and inevitable as the setting of poems to music used to be.