by Debbie Okun Hill
c2010
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This is an old poem
see how it bleeds
with a slow beat
frail words
without a home
its spine bent
t-a-t-t-e-r-e-d
blue ink fading
a mere smudge
on whispering lips
Debbie Okun Hill is an executive member of The Ontario Poetry Society and an associate member of The League of Canadian Poets. Since the fall 2004, over 150 of her poems have been published in over 60 publications/e-zines including Other Voices, Quills Canadian Poetry Magazine and Ascent Aspirations anthologies. Her first chapbook Swaddled in Comet Dust: A Collection of Award-winning Poems was published by Beret Days Press in 2008.