Today’s poem is Ashes by Rahma O. Jimoh. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual.

In this episode, Major writes… “As a poet, how can you write into that catastrophe? How can a poem artfully contain the struggle between the sanctity of nature and the unfettered business practices of corporations that put humans and the environment in harm’s way?”

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