1045: Sonnet for Ochún

Today’s poem is Sonnet for Ochún by Leslie Sainz.

The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “In today’s poem, I hear a shared melancholy, a world-weariness where the edges of life fail to offer answers. Yet, I detect, too, in the presence of a deity, the transits and rituals of hope and renewal.”

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