Today\u2019s poem is Not So Much an End as an Entangling by Linda Gregerson.
The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes\u2026 \u201cThis week\u2019s episodes are a special feature on ekphrasis \u2013 poems which engage with works of art. The vision of birds stilled in motion at the center of Tom Uttech\u2019s paintings invite similar speculations. Today\u2019s poem reads an exodus of earth\u2019s species as an ominous commentary, I surmise, on the decimation of the environment.\u201d
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