Kevin Young

It doesn't lie in some external thing or doesn't lie in some notion that's far from earth only.

It also can lie here and within us.

And, you know, I make it sound like it's a book of, of

preachiness, but it isn't.

It's really, I hope, a book of, as it ends with, a kind of rapture.

And that rapturousness sometimes ends up being quite hard.

It's hard to move about, and especially now when things can seem kind of despondent or divided or strange, I love that we still have language to try to help us understand that.

And for me, that's what poems do.

That's what

Nature does.

There's a lot of nature in the book.

But also this idea of the night watch, of keeping vigil, is important.

And if there's something about that, about being vigilant, but not just against things, but toward what's possible and beauty, then I'd be happy.

Yeah, he's got to keep working.

That ball straight at him, came in, got a bad read.

And, you know, he's been working hard out there.

He just needs to continue to get better.

And then the one in the sun just lost it in the sun.

Yeah, we need to make sure that we're prepared right there.

I'm going straight to the facility to see if I can find his sunglasses.