“When the doctor suggested surgery and a brace for all my youngest years, my parents scrambled to take me to massage therapy, deep tissue work, osteopathy, and soon my crooked spine unspooled a bit, I could breathe again, and move more in a body unclouded by pain. My mom would tell me to sing songs t…”— Ada Limon, apmpodcasts.orgTagged: Poetry, The Slowdown, Maudlin, Spine, chiropractor