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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971: On Mars
970: Ungendered 2
969: Us
968: The Long Goodbye
967: Ode to Purple Summer
[encore] 806: Polycardial
[encore] 822: Cricket Song
[encore] 804: Foxglove
[encore] 870: Hymn to Church Basements
[encore] 812: September
966: Love Poem, with Birds
965: from "Excess Sonnets"
964: abundance of light
963: Frederick Douglass
962: Afternoon in Andalusia
961: Nocturne
960: I’m Nobody! Who are you? (260)
959: On Earth
958: Alain Locke in Stoughton Hall
957: Rooms by the Sea
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