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Potatoes

from Make a List by Tanya Davis

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my love song to Prince Edward Island

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Potatoes

On Prince Edward Island the dirt is as red as they say
and the hills are rolling and so are the waves
and there are patchwork fields all over the place
and miles and miles of sand on which to lay
tourists leave this in the fall, come back to it in May

so what takes place on a tiny province in the snow
and what do the locals do when the tourists go
we dig those fields you admired as by them you drove
our tiny island with its red dirt roads
and all that iron helps our potatoes to grow

and then the cold comes in and the harvest is over
and we seal our windows up, stack wood for our fires
and we take off our screen doors and our summer tires
and we settle in for the winter, get nice and tired
and hibernate while the snow blankets our island

and when it storms hard enough we all stay in our houses
and we get some days off work and some power outages
and we have to slow down, candles and couches
until the snow stops falling, we all dig ourselves out of it
we make it through tough winters here, we are proud of this

you have to stay in a place through all the seasons to appreciate everything that it is

and spring is a long time coming in the gulf of the Saint Lawrence
and the trees are a long time budding and when they do it is so glorious
and the birds they keep us patient while we're waiting, singing us nice choruses
and soon enough we're all gathered up talking of how warm it is
we love our island, that's for sure it is

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from Make a List, released May 19, 2006

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Tanya Davis Mount Stewart, Prince Edward Island

Tanya Davis is a writer and artist living on Epekwitk / Prince Edward Island. She writes poems, songs, monologues, speeches, and other things.

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