Dawn McGuire, a finalist in Narrative’s Eighteenth Annual Poetry Contest, is a neurologist and the author of four poetry collections: Sleeping in Africa, Hands On, The Aphasia Cafe, and American Dream with Exit Wound. She grew up in eastern Kentucky and was educated at Princeton University, the Union Theological Seminary, and the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. She is adjunct professor of neurology at the Neurosciences Institute of Morehouse School of Medicine and divides her time between Atlanta and Northern California.

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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