1413: On Proliferation by Cass Donish
The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily
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🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Today’s poem is On Proliferation by Cass Donish.
The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Maggie writes… “As a poet, I think one of my personal stages of grief is writing. When I experience deep loss, there is a part of me that needs to try to articulate that loss. I wouldn’t say that writing about loss is healing; writing doesn’t restore who or what’s been lost. There are distances we can’t cross, things we can’t fully understand. But we try, with language. And there is honor in the trying.”
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