1294: White Peonies by Reginald Dwayne Betts
Feb 13, 2025•5 min
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Episode description
Today’s poem is White Peonies by Reginald Dwayne Betts. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual.
In this episode, guest host Maggie Smith writes… “When I’m on a walk, I take pictures and make recordings so I can later identify what I’ve seen and heard. If my teenage daughter is with me, as she often is, she teases me when I use the birding app on my phone, or when I take photos of seed pods, or leaves, or bark, so I can identify a plant or a tree. She said once, “Why can’t you just see it and enjoy it? Why do you need to know its name?””
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