Reading: Reverse Requiem by Ina Cariño

Today’s poem is Reverse Requiem by Ina Cariño.

The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Maggie writes… “Today’s poem inspired me to learn more about requiems — what they are, how they’ve evolved, and how we might think of them more broadly and metaphorically.”

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