1288: A Drink in the Night by Deborah Garrison

The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily

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Arts, Performing Arts

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🗓️ 5 February 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Today’s poem is A Drink in the Night by Deborah Garrison. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual.

In this episode, guest host Maggie Smith writes… “Today’s poem captures a scene between a parent and child that feels both familiar and miraculous. I love that poems are a place where the everyday and the transcendent can live side by side. Because they live side by side in life, too. There’s wonder everywhere, even in the tiniest, most banal moments. We just have to open our eyes to see it—or, as this poem suggests, open our mouths to taste it.”

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1:05.0	I'm Maggie Smith and this is the slowdown.
1:19.6	Thank you. And this is the slowdown. Almost 10 years ago, over the course of several weeks, I visited the second grade classrooms at our local elementary school.
1:29.2	I had been invited to talk to the students about poetry.
1:33.5	The teachers gave me the language arts textbook they were using in preparation for my visit.
1:40.5	I noticed that in the poetry unit, the textbook authors wrote that poets have a special ability to see the world in a poetic way.
1:50.9	They called this having poet's eyes.
1:54.6	They even suggested that teachers decorate an oversized pair of silly plastic glasses so they could put on their poet's eyes
2:04.2	during lessons.
2:06.9	On my first day with each class, I sat down at the front of the room in a small chair, and
2:13.3	the children all gathered in front of me on the rug.
2:17.4	One of the first things I told the students
2:19.7	was this. We all have poet's eyes. We are all born with them. We all have the ability to see the
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