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© 2010 Karen P. Ouellette Karen P. Ouellette's poetry is influenced
by her work with the disabled and by years of (Cecchetti) ballet training.
She has read her poems at Wayzgoose (U of W), CBC Radio, and at various
schools & venues throughout Ontario and Michigan. Karen's poetry is
published in Whetstone, Kaleidoscope, Windsor Review, Quills Magazine,
Leaf Press (Monday's Poem), The Saving Bannister: HM, and by Black
Moss Press and Cranberry Tree Press. Karen is a member of The League of
Canadian Poets and is one of the "five poets" presented in both:
A Thousand Yellow Leaves (2004), and Tongues of Whitewashed Stone
(2008).
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Tracing Sundays As the strong scent of fresh-perked coffee slow-rises from my favourite chipped cup, I sit at the scarred table; trace generations of scratches, homework scribbles, parts of precious poems pressed into polished wood, my fingers reading the initial D carved from a knothole by my kid brother when he was ten, my hands smoothing love's maple wounds where candles shivered, sometimes singed, while raised goblets spilled sticky -sweet splashes of red... for I can feel the warm Sunday-faces that grow deeper like the grain of our gathering place. |
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