Tenderness, Failed Embrace, and Farewell

Today’s poem is Hackberry by Cecily Parks.

The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Maggie writes… “Today’s poem is a kind of love poem—to a beloved tree, and to the sense of home it created.”

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