988: Hillwood

Today’s poem is Hillwood by Mark Jarman. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual.
In this episode, Major writes… “Today’s poem calls us to the sounds of the earth and its creatures, where the imagination takes over as we doze off. Mind and body are primed for that somnambulant journey that is the unconscious.”
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