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The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily

1416: Nursery by Kiki Petrosino

The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily

American Public Media

Performing Arts, Arts

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Today’s poem is Nursery by Kiki Petrosino.


The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Maggie writes… “Today’s poem draws on the language of fairy tales and the strange, sometimes inexplicable things that happen in these stories. After all, strange, sometimes inexplicable things happen in life, too.”


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My favorite books as a child were both collections of fairy tales.

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One was a doorstop, thick, hardback,

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bound in red cloth with gold printing on the cover.

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I remember it had especially thin, delicate pages and very small print. There weren't full-page color illustrations

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