Today’s poem is Foxglove by Ambalila Hemsell. This episode was originally released on February 1, 2023.

The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “In today’s brilliant poem, the speaker wrestles with the self-perception of how our hungers as humans nascently contribute to the disruption of the natural world, and whether or not we have proprietary rights to those natural places.”

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