To FLOW

upon winning the Oscar for feature-length animation

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my heart is full of tears that fill me from a place of rising waters,

the story of a gray cat, its wide eyes and body’s music,

its attentiveness and hunches, its mews and purring,

this creature meeting each improbable turn, each presence,

as something to respond to — what is here and what is needed now,

the wordless story told in cinematic heartbeats, on cat’s feet,

through eyes that by the end are your own.