The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily
Arts:Performing Arts
Today’s poem is At My Funeral by Hélène Cardona.
The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Ultimately, we do not know the experience of dying. We can only imagine. Artists, though, have fun playing with the mystery of what happens when we transition to no longer walking the earth in the flesh. From the Jerry Zucker movie “Ghost” to Dylan Thomas’s poem “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night,” I have found special comfort in works that find a boldness in facing the inevitable.”
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1131: How It Will End by Denise Duhamel
1130: Cy Twombly's Untitled (Say Goodbye Catullus, to the shores of Asia Minor) by Javier O. Huerta
1129: Hagar in the Wilderness by Tyehimba Jess
1128: Post-Industrial Society Has Arrived by Vidhu Aggarwal
1127: Two Paintings Seen Again by Rachel Hadas
1126: Not So Much an End as an Entangling by Linda Gregerson
1125: English by Janel Pineda
1124: What Good Is A Castle by Linda Susan Jackson
1123: In the House With No Doors by Sarah Kay
1122: Childhood by David Baker
1121: The Empire of Light by Michael Dumanis
1120: Monet Refuses the Operation by Lisel Mueller
1119: A Black Doe in the Anthropocene by Artress Bethany White
1117: I Am Waiting by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
1116: Mercy by Dessa
1115: Frame Six by Cheswayo Mphanza
1114: The Mothers by Jill Bialosky
1113: Egrets, While War by Tishani Doshi
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