“Ah my dear, have no fear,”
Snarled the stranger in the night,
Whose lupine eyes could mesmerize
Any creature in their sight;
“For I have only just returned
From my Transylvanian flight,
When I spied your classical beauty
By the full moon’s light,”
He whispered beguilingly,
Sharp teeth glistening bright.
Spellbound maiden hearkened to
This pallid stranger’s plight:
“As a count, it is not my custom
To be so forthright;
Although it is a pain in the neck,
I had to drop in for a bite.”
Fern G. Z. Carr is a former lawyer, teacher and past President of both the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and Project Literacy Kelowna Society.