Today’s poem is Gala Noise by Diane Mehta. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual.

In this episode, Major writes… “Today’s poem invites us to contemplate how language is not just what is heard, but what is conveyed beneath the surface. Underneath, it sees that we are interconnected with nature, linked to an existential restlessness which leads us to the act of making sounds.”

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