1081: The Leaving by Brigit Pegeen Kelly
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Today\\u2019s poem is The Leaving by Brigit Pegeen Kelly. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual.
In this episode, guest host Victoria Chang writes\\u2026 \\u201cThis is a poem that seems so easy to describe, yet it\\u2019s so hard to pin down\\u2013my favorite kind of poem\\u2013both clear and mysterious. It\\u2019s dreamlike, mystical, biblical, and so much more. It magically depicts what it\\u2019s like to be a child on the cusp of something, in the face of the largeness of the world.\\u201d
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