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The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily

1357: Country Night by Laura Newbern

The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily

American Public Media

Arts, Performing Arts

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Today’s poem is Country Night by Laura Newbern. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Maggie writes… “Today’s poem touched me because it made me think of my grandmother. It made me think of her care, but also about the life she had after her marriage ended. I know her life didn’t look the way she’d expected it would. I wish it had been easier. Still, she could whistle like a songbird.” Celebrate the power of poems with a gift to The Slowdown today. Every donation makes a difference: https://tinyurl.com/rjm4synp

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1:04.3

I'm Maggie Smith, and this is the slowdown.

1:19.0

Thank you. I'm Maggie Smith, and this is The Slowdown. My maternal grandmother, the matriarch of our family, died 25 years ago this year.

1:27.2

She still visits me in dreams now and then.

1:31.4

Her name was Elizabeth, but everyone called her by her middle name, Anne.

1:38.2

Her grandchildren did not call her grandma or Mimi or one of the more conventional titles.

1:46.5

No, we called her Dabble, and I was to thank or to blame for that name.

1:54.0

It was something I'd babbled as a baby, and it stuck.

2:00.0

My memories of Dabble are still as crisp and as pigmented as ever, all these years later.

2:09.6

She drove a gold Dotson.

2:12.8

The radio station she preferred played what I would now call elevator music, instrumental but not

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