Dawn Macdonald

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Sometimes I talk too fast and …

[five lines missing]

… put my tongue in sprints.

The following is as follows:

one, a principle; two, the perception of damp;

three, multiply by five

to get the distance to the storm.

… [approximately two-and-a-half

lines missing] … (full?) throat.

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Dawn Macdonald lives in Canada’s Yukon Territory, where she was raised off the grid. She holds a degree in applied mathematics and used to know a lot about infinite series. Her poetry has appeared in over two-dozen journals, and has been nominated for a Pushcart prize.