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Today’s poem is Before Lunar New Year, Our Mothers Go Missing by Uyen Phuong Dang.
The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Maggie writes… “Today’s poem references the Lunar New Year, which happens in February, but it’s a timeless, seasonless poem. It has me thinking about the relationship between mothers and daughters, and between one generation and the next.”
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