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Jan 2025
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1266: Echo by Christina Rossetti

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Today’s poem is Echo by Christina Rossetti.


The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Today’s poem calls back to a deceased beloved, to return to this side of existence, to traverse the layers of time — an incantation that wishes to reunite us with the bliss we once knew.”


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