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Reposted by Kai Carlson-Wee

The Slowdown @slowdownshow.org · 10/11/2025

“Sometimes I prefer to engage with art — to listen to a record or see a film — without expectations," host Maggie Smith (@maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social) shares in episode number 1392 of The Slowdown. Read “Local Mission" by Kai Carlson-Wee and our full episode transcript: bit.ly/47QaRVl

A graphic featuring a portion of Kai Carlson-Wee's poem. It reads:

in early July (maybe the exact same street corner)
looking at maple leaves catching the rain, I will see only pity
and lichen-shades, barely-there shadows that fall
to the street, and the light will be too far away to remember,
and the words will be drizzle and maple and green,
and before I know it the language will not let me leave it––
the traffic will pass as it always has passed: dependably,
rumbling west of the bridge.

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