We Get Letters

Not many, but a month or so ago the editors of Fife & Drum received from Dennis Lee, the much-loved author of Alligator Pie, the following squib entitled “Famous Fauna of Fort York,” which he calls a ‘versicle.’ In any event, when his efforts became known to the coyotes, skunks, foxes, raccoons, rabbits, and field mice of Fort York they clamoured to be immortalized in verse too. If he does write about them, we think these versicles should be known collectively as The Best[iary] of Dennis Lee.

There was a young groundhog named Otto,
Whose brain was perpetually blotto.
He rose up and roared
As he tunnelled the sward,
“I ruminate more than I oughto.”