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1388: When I learn Catastrophically by Martha Silano

1388: When I learn Catastrophically by Martha Silano

Update: 2025-11-04
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Today’s poem is When I Learn Catastrophically by Martha Silano.


The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Maggie writes… “Today’s poem unexpectedly merges the playfulness of anagrams with the gravitas of a terminal diagnosis—the weight of reckoning with the end of one’s life. But when you think about it, an anagram isn’t just play. It’s a way of making a thing out of something else entirely. A way of seeing—and creating—other possibilities. A way of containing multitudes.”


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1388: When I learn Catastrophically by Martha Silano

1388: When I learn Catastrophically by Martha Silano

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