[encore] 1347: Animal Prudence by Kathy Fagan

Today’s poem is Animal Prudence by Kathy Fagan. This episode was originally released on September 8, 2025.
The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Maggie writes… “Today’s poem is a favorite of mine for its associative leaps—the way it carries us from image to image, memory to memory. I admire the way it uses the language we encounter in our lives to make those leaps: road signs, the names of streets and flowers, the lists we find in our pockets.”
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