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Oct 14
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1373: Protection Spell Jar by Cynthia Ma...

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Today’s poem is Protection Spell Jar by Cynthia Marie Hoffman.


The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Maggie writes… “Today’s poem is from a collection of prose poems that chronicles a woman’s journey through obsessive-compulsive disorder, from childhood into adulthood. I admire the way we’re invited into the speaker’s consciousness, to see her mind at work.”


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