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MacGyver, aged 17, escapes a locked car using a toothpick and a can of aerosol. MacGyver, aged 8, plunges twelve stories into a dump truck. He emerges unscathed, carrying a nearly translucent umbrella. MacGyver, aged fourteen months, establishes contact with a friendly behind enemy lines using a pacifier, an English muffin, and a Glock. MacGyver, in utero, counts his possessions: ten soft fingernails, a fine, potentially braidable hair covering everything, any number of already vestigial parts: the muscles of the ear, gills, the tail bone, the tiny appendix.<\/p>\n
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“History of MacGyver” is reprinted from\u00a0Poetry Northwest<\/a>.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n Jason Whitmarsh<\/a>\u00a0earned his B.A. in mathematics from the University of Chicago and an M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Washington. His poems<\/a> have appeared in many literary journals, including\u00a0Yale Review<\/em>,\u00a0Harvard Review<\/em>,\u00a0Ploughshares<\/em>,and\u00a0Fence<\/em>. His book,\u00a0Tomorrow\u2019s Living Room<\/em>,<\/a> won the 2009 May Swenson Poetry Award. He lives in Seattle with his wife and children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" History of MacGyver MacGyver, aged 17, escapes a locked car using a toothpick and a can of aerosol. MacGyver, aged 8, plunges twelve stories into a dump truck. He emerges unscathed, carrying a nearly translucent umbrella. MacGyver, aged fourteen … Continue reading