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Jun 2024
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1138: Orientation by Cindy Juyoung Ok

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Today’s poem is Orientation by Cindy Juyoung Ok.


The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Every poem is a bridge between nature and us, in that what lies hidden, what is below, is somehow familiar, and brought to consciousness.”


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