Today’s poem is On Mars by Ariana Benson. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual.

In this episode, Major writes… “I’ve come to believe our galaxy serves as a destination for our imaginations; it inspires our conjecture about the universe; it is where we land all of our queries about the meaning and origins of life, where we construct narratives that give us solace.”

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