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Aug 20
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1334: Étude by Amy Gerstler

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Today’s poem is Étude by Amy Gerstler.


The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Maggie writes… “Today’s poem is a celebration of sound, and also a celebration of our own power to interpret sound and make meaning—as poets do. Poems, like songs, are meant to live in the air. They are their own music.”


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