Today’s poem is Light Upon The Body by Alison Braid. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual.

In this episode, Major writes… “Today’s poem speaks a truth about bodies. Illness, occasionally, makes them seem like their own entities; they speak the languages of pain and discomfort that need translation into a music. Music that ushers us back to familiarity and recovery.”

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