960: Im Nobody! Who are you? (260)

Published: Sept. 7, 2023, 7 a.m.

Today\u2019s poem is I\u2019m Nobody! Who are you? (260) by Emily Dickinson.


The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes\u2026 \u201cToday\u2019s popular poem encourages a kind of disappearance from life rather than a need for attention. Cosmologically speaking, there\u2019s a virtue in acknowledging one\u2019s insignificance, maybe, too, in instigating others to enjoy the pause of anonymity and quietness of being."


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