In Praise of David

you on display in words

like those plastic flowers imprisoned in glass the decorations of whited sepulchres deceptively real

crossed beneath your martyr’s voice

the hololize “perfection”

can no one see your decay

entombed in poetry of stained rhyme

Guess Who?

There once was a man form Ghana

Who thought he would come to Canada. But when the snow came

It drove him insane.

So much for the man from Ghana!

By Wendy Carpenter

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Snowman

The snow came fast.

The snow came quick.

It came so fast

It made me sick.

I don’t want to wear my mittens, I don’t want to wear my hat. I just wish I had fur

Like an old tom cat.

I’m shivering, I’m shivering All night and all day.

How can Canadians

Live this way!

I want to go home

Where there’s sunshine and heat. To see family and friends And lay out on the beach. But Christmas is coming Across this cold land.

I’ll worship my saviour

With bible in hand.

I like my new friends Although a bit strange. When I return home

They’ll think I’m deranged!

Dedicated to all international students at UPEI.

By Wendy Carpenter Richard Arsenault

Bee Stings

you come to me’

humming and buzzing

for the bitter sweet taste of my honeyed body if you be bee

the i be lupine

and lupine-like i enclose you

whilst you hover dixxy on rich nextar with long wolfen howls

i shall slash and tear you

licking blood from shared lips satiating both you love

and my lust

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