1018: Cuffing Season
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Today\\u2019s poem is Cuffing Season by Lisa Fay Coutley.
The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes\\u2026 \\u201cLove is a force that reconciles what is, in contradistinction, wrong in the world. Because I know that love is real, and that love is right. But sometimes finding love is a journey that takes longer than some but is worth it. Today\\u2019s poem wrestles with the tentativeness by which relationships are pursued, given the scariness of their potential outcomes.\\u201d
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