1048: You & the Donkey Cart
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Today\\u2019s poem is You & the Donkey Cart by Rosa Alcal\\xe1.
The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. This week, we\\u2019re sharing listener stories from the Twin Cities Book Festival. In this episode, our producer, Myka Kielbon, writes\\u2026 \\u201cWe carry stories across our individual realities. And, like our listener, Margaret said, we carry our family stories, our habits and practices. They live across generations, across borders and across seas. What we carry is often what brings us to poetry, what makes up our poems.\\u201d
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