Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “Baby, are you a believer?” by Toni della Fata.

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Baby, are you a believer?

By Toni della Fata

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Copyright © Toni della Fata

Previously published in Temple in a City, September 2025.

Toni della Fata is a lesbian writer based in Toronto, Canada. She is a professional daydreamer, whose work focuses on the fringes between fiction and reality. When she isn’t writing, Toni can be found in a nearby stream counting fish or somewhere on the coast collecting sea shells.

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