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Otto Selles is a professor of French at Calvin University (Grand Rapids, MI), where he chairs the departments of World Languages and Art and Design. He studied at McMaster University in Hamilton, ON (BA, MA) and at the University of Paris-IV Sorbonne (PhD). His academic research focuses on eighteenth-century French literature and the fate of the Huguenots in France before the French Revolution. He is also a photographer and poet. The poem published here (which was originally published in the Reformed Journal in April 2012) opens his upcoming collection Matins, to be released by Pandora Press (Hamilton, ON). It is worth noting that the characteristics of this poem include both poetic and narrative elements, allowing it to be interpreted as a One-Page story.
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Matins
Before the alarm, before the reminders about lunches, band, the dentist, and soccer, I slip out of bed and watch the kettle boil to life. I greet the toast tenderly, and the jam, once again, surprises, so sweet, so sticky. Through the kitchen window I sense the sullen pine tree fenced between the garage and the power lines. I sip, chew, and cast a thought into the dark, or rather a question about the day, about what might or might not happen.
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These texts are published with the kind authorization of the author.
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