NPR & Nancy Pearl

Waking up at 6am and sitting in the car for a couple hours does have its benefits, like listening to the commentary on NPR with Nancy Pearl on further under the radar: more books not to miss, including After, a book of poetry from Jane Hirshfield.

To Wake at 3:00

To wake at 3:00
and not want to go back to sleep
is different
from waking and wanting
not to go back to sleep.
Thoughts
come to the mind,
predictable almost as breath.
The day's small errors and failures.
wrong words that were said,
right ones that were not.

Outside the window
a truck, with yellow lights
running the length of its body
and R&L Cargo lettered large down its side,
diesels the street inexplicably backward.

Making its own deliveries,
equally exhausted, from some great distance.

From After by Jane Hirshfield. All rights reserved.