Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “Blue Shell” by Kelly Madden, winner of the 2024 Very Small Verse Contest!

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Blue Shell

by Kelly Madden

The first time you saw

a baby robin

beneath an oak tree

did it leave a mark

on you

that no one can see

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Kelly Madden writes poetry, fiction and children’s stories. Her work has appeared in publications supported by the League of Canadian Poets, Reckoning 2 & 4, Island Writer’s Magazine, Con-temporary Verse 2, THE POET and various anth-ologies. Her first collection of poetry, If I’d Known, is available through redtuquebooks.com or contact kellybmadden.com

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