“Like Selling Ice to Penguins”

 

Compasses of all shapes and sizes

on display

at the outdoor equipment store.

 

I check the selection,

wondering who’s buying them.

 

Don’t Canadians know

where the True North is?

 

(Editor’s note: poet Shai Ben-Shalom, an Israeli-born biologist, writes for Blacklock’s each and every Sunday)

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