Ted Audio Collective

The universe has already written the poem, you are planning on writing.

And this is why you can do nothing but point at the flock of starlings whose bodies rise

and fall in inherited choreography, swarming the sky in a sweeping curtain that for one blistering

moment forms the unmistakable shape of a giant bird flapping against the sky.

It is why your mouth forms an, oh, that is not a gasp, but rather the beginning of, oh,

of course, as in, of course, the heart of a blue whale is as large as a house, with chambers

tall enough to fit a person's standing.

Of course, a fig is only possible when a lady wasp lays her eggs inside a flower, dies,

and decomposes the fruit, evidence of her transformation.

Sometimes the poem is so bright, your silly language will not stick to it.

Sometimes the poem is so true, nobody will believe you.

I am a bird, made of birds, my blue heart, a house, you can stand up inside of, I am dying.

Here, inside this flower, it is okay, it is what I was put here to do.

Take this fruit, it is what I have to offer.

It may not be first or ever best, but it is the only way to be sure I lived it all.

From the 10 Audio Collective, this is Design Matters with Debbie Milman.

For 17 years, Debbie Milman has been talking with some of the world's most creative people

about what they do, how they got to be who they are, and what they're thinking about

and working on.

And now, some of those interviews appear in print in Debbie's brand new book, Why Design

Matters.

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