909: My Dearest Black-Billed Streamertail

Today’s poem is My Dearest Black-Billed Streamertail by Michelle Whittaker.

The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “The speaker in today’s epistolary poem turns to the hummingbird as an avatar of their own wish to soar.”

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Release date

Lydbog: 28. juni 2023