1468: Five Paragraph Essay on Time by Kathleen Flenniken

The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily · Mar 3, 2026 · 5m

Today’s poem is Five Paragraph Essay on Time by Kathleen Flenniken.

The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Maggie writes… “Recently, I told a friend that I had procrastinated a task, and so I had to really hustle to get it done on time, and she kindly corrected me. Or, rather, she reframed what I was calling procrastination as something else: triage. That’s what she called it. She said, “You have so much to do, you have to triage tasks—tackle the big and immediate ones first, and let some of the smaller ones go for a bit.” She had a point. I didn’t have a time management…