About this episode
Today’s poem is Mother's Rules by Yalie Saweda Kamara. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Today’s poem shows how we impossibly carry our parents’ voices well into our adulthood, a measure by which to shape our lives independent of their nurturance and instructions.” Celebrate the power of poems with a gift to The Slowdown today. Every donation makes a difference: https://tinyurl.com/rjm4synp