The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily
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Today’s poem is Cliché by V. Penelope Pelizzon. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual.
In this episode, Major writes… “Today’s poem makes use of the ocean as a paradoxical symbol of healing and regeneration yet, too, a site of debris and decay.”
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1134: Americans by Katie Peterson
1133: The Alien by Greg Delanty
1132: Felonious States of Adjectival Excess Featuring Comparative and Superlative Forms by A. H. Jerriod Avant
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
1118: At My Funeral by Hélène Cardona
1117: I Am Waiting by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
1116: Mercy by Dessa
1115: Frame Six by Cheswayo Mphanza
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