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I'm Maggie Smith and this is the slowdown.

Thank you. And this is the slowdown. One thing I love about poems is how they give us the opportunity to take our time, to dial in, to look and listen closely.

Not everything screams to be noticed. Some things barely whisper, or they might just squawk

or coo now and then. Today's poem is a celebration of creatures we tend to overlook or even disdain.

It invites us to reconsider our perspective.

I find myself defending pigeons by Keith S. Wilson.

I love how you never find their bodies, how they never rest their eyes.

I love how their breasts are comforters unfolding by their breath.

I love that pigeons live in the city, that underestimation never stopped a pigeon

from unlatching itself or being old. I want them all unspooling in the air, and bridges

that are half-sigh and half-pigeon. I want to harbor their coup and utilize it for energy.

I want to learn to use them the way they want to be used.

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