The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily
Arts:Performing Arts
Today’s poem is Mixed Marriage by Nick Laird.
The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Some days, we bicker, nothing major (pun intended). Often, it’s minor: control of the thermostat, recycling duty, my general proclivity to forget. On very rare occasions, we hit upon a disagreement that requires work — where we need to figure out why we react so strongly. I have not been in a romantic relationship that did not require work. I mean come-to-your-maker kind of work. I’m talking emotional work that has you question every decision you have made up till that moment and every decision you will make thereafter. Faint of heart? Don’t even go there. Too awed by your own existence? You might be better off alone. Allergic to change? Incapable of adapting? Only the rotation of the sun is a constant; all else is subject to life’s mutability and human fallibility. The most stable of relationships account for this fact.”
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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
1114: The Mothers by Jill Bialosky
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