The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily
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Today’s poem is A Funeral Ending with Beyoncé by Karisma Price.
The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. We’re taking a break this week, so we’re running some of our favorite episodes from this season so far. This episode was originally released on 07/18/2023.
In this episode, Major writes… “When speaking about the dead, my uncle makes sure to hit his fisted hand on any object that looks grainy and some shade of brown. One theory is that the practice of touching wood has its roots in the medieval belief that trees contained spirits that positively intervened when summoned. Today’s poem continues this faith, that we can somehow protect ourselves, by acting out instinctive customs against bad news or fateful tragedy.”
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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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