“first day” by Sally Quon

Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “first day” by Sally Quon.


first day

By Sally Quon

first day-

folding and unfolding

my expectations


Copyright © Sally Quon

Sally Quon is a disabled writer living in the Okanagan Valley of beautiful British Columbia, home of the Syilx people. She has been widely published in poetry and creative nonfiction anthologies, such as Chicken Soup for the Soul – The Forgiveness Fix, BIG: Thoughts on a Plus Size Life, and on-line at The Good Life Review. Her photographs have appeared in Canadian Geographic and Nature Alberta’s Important Bird Areas. Her poems have been included in collections such as Worth More Standing, Voicing Suicide, and Coming Out of Isolation. Beauty, Born of Pain is her first full length collection.


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