Welcome to this episode of Poems for the Speed of Life with Shane Breslin, writer, business owner, poetry advocate and poet.

This is the eighth episode of this series of the show on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠the theme of "Fatherhood”⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Today's episode is a different format, because the typical format - reading a poem twice straight through, and then offering some thoughts - couldn't work for a 500-line poem like "Michael", William Wordsworth's great pastoral.

Because of that, this is a much longer episode, so whether you enjoy it in full, or you dip in multiple times, I do hope you enjoy it.

And as always, if you do, please do tell one person about Poems for the Speed of Life.

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠You can read today’s poem here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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