Dale Smit
h is an associate professor of English at Ryerson University, Toronto. His writing on rhetoric and poetics has appeared in Jacket 2, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and Public Modalities: Rhetoric, Culture, Media, and the Shape of Public Life. He is the author of one book of critical scholarship, Poets Beyond the Barricade: Rhetoric, Citizenship, and Dissent after 1960, and four books of poetry, including American Rambler, The Flood and the Garden, Black Stone, and Susquehanna.
Slow Poetry in America, is available through Cuneiform Press.
DALE MARTIN SMITH 
Arnoldo García
Manifesto for Slowness
Let’s take our time
Eat slow
Dream slow
Sleep slow
Walk slow
Play slow
Make love slow
Smile long and slow
Meditate slow
Slowriders all
Slow time for the poor
Slow time for the not-so-poor
Slow down time
Catch yourself in the curve of space
Catch me in the curves of your body
Slowly rise up
Slowly drink our water
Slowly look at each other
Infinity is the finite plus finite plus the finite, us
So we have time, more than we know what to do with
Slow heart beat
Slow planting
Slow tilling
Late blooming
Slow spring
Slow summer
Slow fall
Slow winter
Where snow snows slowly
So we can see each snowflake into infinity
Slow melting
Slow transformations
Slowly flower for the land
Slowly curve into each other
Slowly trespass the limits
Slowly make this land ours
Slow nation
Slow down people
Who’s in a hurry
Who’s rushing us to war
Who’s rushing us to work
Who’s inventing faster downloads, gigabytes, DSL lines, when there’s still breadlines
Slower than analog
Slower than gut strings vibrating in your ears
Slow dance
Slow chance
Slow revolution to reach each other
Take our time to take our place in each other’s arms
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