1190: At the Museum of Empress Livias Garden Room by Pimone Triplett
Today\u2019s poem is At the Museum of Empress Livia\u2019s Garden Room by Pimone Triplett.
The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes\u2026 \u201cToday\u2019s lyric poem walks us through a villa garden painted on a fresco. Reading the poem, it is as though we eavesdrop on the speaker\u2019s awe, but also how a rich, imagined replica of fruit, birds, trees leads us to thoughts about our own relationship to natural spaces.\u201d
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