This new book is--
so Taylor Swift had the Eras Tour, so this is my Eras Tour,
basically.
It's sort of like everything.
And so I love NPR, and it kind of
got me through the pandemic besides Bob
getting me through the pandemic.
But I love that you discover like jellyfish age
and get younger at the same time.
How's that?
[LAUGHTER] It's true.
"Micro-Minutes on Your Way to Work"
So this is for someone who is very shy
but has to work with people all the time.
Days are unusual.
The owl sends
out 5 zeros from the pines
plus one small silver nothing.
Where
do they float?
Maybe out to
sea where jellyfish are aging left
and right.
They have some nerve.
Today, no new wars, probably.
No
big button.
The owl could be
your scholar of trapped light or
Walter Benjamin who writes a storm
blows in from paradise.
Thinking through
these things each week, you cross
the bridge-- gold coils, fog, feelings.
Syllables also can grow younger like
those jellyfish.
You bring your quilt
of questions in the car.
At
work, you'll have to be patient
at the risky enterprise of talking
to other people; so little progress
in this since the Pleistocene.
Mostly,
though, you're calm when traveling-- silver
nothing, moving right and left; day
releasing the caged stars; one thought
mixed with no-thought, packed with light.