Dawn McGuire is a neurologist and award-winning author of three poetry collections, including The Aphasia Café (IF SF, 2012). She grew up in eastern Kentucky and was educated at Princeton University, the Union Theological Seminary, and the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. The 2011 winner of Sarah Lawrence’s Campbell Corner Poetry Contest, McGuire serves as professor of neurology at the Morehouse School of Medicine and divides her time between Atlanta and the San Francisco Bay Area.

Dear Salvation Army

by Dawn McGuire

You can have the goat
I got for reading my poems
In Willits
He has balded my yard

Now he’s grazing my books
The Bible from when I was baptized
is his favorite so far
He is a brindle goat
People on couch
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