1216: oracle by Duriel E. Harris

Today’s poem is oracle by Duriel E. Harris. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual.
In this episode, Major writes… “Today’s poem intrigues me for how it upholds the possibility of poetry as a terse, sacred voicing that emerges from within, where the inexpressible finds its way to the world as transcendent music, something far more compelling than the language of machines.”
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