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How many breaths

How many breaths

– Poetry by Hayden Finkelshtain –

Featured in Issue 18 of Dreamers Magazine

Embrace

How many breaths will
It take to calm down
Or
How many deep breaths
Surely it’s the deep ones
There’s been several shallow ones to
No avail

Hayden Finkelshtain

About the Author – Hayden Finkelshtain

Hayden is a Toronto-based actor and writer; recent work has been published by the League of Canadian Poets (‘Poetry Pause’) and Stink Eye Magazine. Hayden’s poetry has appeared in print with JLRB Press and Clown House Arts Collective. Follow @rudimentpoetry on Instagram.

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