The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily
Arts:Performing Arts
Today’s poem is The Mothers by Jill Bialosky.
The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Today’s poem beautifully captures those complex emotions of watching our children emerge into themselves — and its threat to our identity.”
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1056: Ghazal for Mothers & Tongues
1055: Dancing at The Get Down by Cat Wei
1054: Hunger
1053: Why Write Love Poetry in a Burning World
1052: Body's Ken
1051: Venus's Flytraps
1050: To The Woman Crying Uncontrollably in the Next Stall
1049: [I wandered lonely as a Cloud] or Daffodils
1048: You & the Donkey Cart
1047: To The Stone-Cutters
1046: After, We Try to Switch Our Hearts Back On
1045: Sonnet for Ochún
1044: Mixed Marriage
1043: from “Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return” by CAConrad
1042: Ode to Badminton
1041: By Then
1040: The Idea of Order at Key West
1039: What Good Is Silence
[encore] 877: The Lifeline
1038: The Book of Barely Imagined Beings
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