Rejection.

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.