Tension Between Hiding and Being Seen

Today’s poem is LeaveTaking by Rita Dove.

The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Maggie writes… “Today’s poem dreams its way into an imagined scenario: finding oneself on this planet, an alien, a stranger, and doing one’s best to be seen as belonging, so as to stay.”

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