[WORDS WHISPERED IN BACKGROUND]
Iâm Ramya Ramana. Iâm from Queens.
My nameâs Sergio Jimenez.
Iâm an NYC poet from uptown Bronx.
I feel like that is the most free you can ever get.
Is when someone gives you three minutes
to say exactly whatever you want.
[WIND & WAVES]
Oh yeah. Iâm ready to go.
Okay.
[WAVES SPLASH AGAINST SHORE]
GABE: Full moon.
Last night.
You called me, wave.
[SOUND OF WAVES BREAKING]
[VOICES]
GABE: Looking at the waves come
and like crash and like
man, I would do anything right now
to just be part of that water.
GABE: I, high tide.
Rack line.
I expose the copper wires
and moon snail shells.
RAMYA: The moon whispered itself
humming like a fading mosaic.
The sky
invites the sun to a dance
the world dies a million times just to see.
RAMYA: I think poetry for me
was just kind of like this place of honesty.
When I didnât understand what was going on around me
when I was confused, like
poetry was like my outlet.
SERGIO: In city life, the city lights
create a collage of artificial fireworks
but not here.
Here, the sun speaks a different language.
She welcomes me.
She misses me.
[SOUNDS OF GULLS AND WAVES]
SERGIO: I feel like nature is a part of the family
that you have to visit every now and then.
As I get older
Iâll make time to make sure
that urbanization doesnât swallow me as a person.
I wanna make sure I stay
nature.
[WAVES CRASHING AGAINST SHORE]
SERGIO: Itâs crazy
Cause I canât see the water in the direction that Iâm looking
I feel like thereâs cars behind me.
[WAVES]
Iâm a city kid so I donât know what the ocean sounds like
cause I know what cars sound like.
[GULLS SQUAWKING]
RAMYA: All the times like Iâve been around nature
it puts things in perspective.
In the wilderness, I feel very humble
and Iâm learning all these things
about love and about growth.
[SOUNDS OF GROUP LAUGHING]
RAMYA: Can you see my eyes?
[REEDS RUSTLING IN THE WIND]
RAMYA: Here, all I see
is everything before man.
Everything
before the foot turned machine.
It is the song
that churns into an album of earth.
GABE: Just being like older,
I just wanna like
do stuff like camp out on the beach.
Well this right here is earth.
It's just really good
to just be
be part of nature again.
Some of the stuff the stars are made of we made of too.
Itâs really about just
embracing this moment
that we are in
and enjoying it.
GABE: I, sand.
The light
and magnetite type
mixed together
and piled higher
than any rising sea level.
I
safe
here.
SERGIO: My motherâs very overprotective
because our environment
is you know dangerous.
But I can imagine being a little kid
just running around here.
[LAUGHTER]
[WIND]
GABE: Itâs just really good
SERGIO: Grinding my palm into the sand
holding hands with earth
He spoke history in between my fingers.
Like a wise man with untold stories
and I listened.
[SOUND OF SAND BLOWING]
RAMYA: I like to think that like
other things than humans talk too.
They just have different ways of communicating.
Like sometimes we have body language.
This is their body language.
[GULLS AND WAVES]
GABE: I am fox tracks
still and temporary.
I am human tracks
still and temporary.
SERGIO: Standing at the edge of the shore
the ocean crawled to me.
Reached out and grabbed my feet
with cold wet hands, with cold wet waves, you see.
Itâs not water when itâs ocean.
Itâs a body.
RAMYA: We as humans, a lot of times, we think weâre dominant
But that doesnât mean we necessarily own
but maybe weâre here to take care
of whatâs around.
Maybe we have a responsibility to take care.
[REEDS RUSTLING IN WIND]
By not taking care of our planet
we are unconsciously hunting ourselves
and the generations to come.
[WAVES CRASHING]