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-title: 'Squirrel'
-project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves'
-project-order: 35
-genre: 'verse'
-...
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-He is so full in himself: \
-how far down the branch to run, \
-how long to jump, when to grab the air \
-and catch in it and turn, and land on branch \
-so gracefully it's like dying, alone \
-and warm in a bed next to a summer window \
-and the [birds singing][].  And on that branch there \
-is the squirrel dancing among the branches \
-and you think *What if he fell?* but he won't \
-because he's a squirrel and that's what \
-they do, [dance][] and never fall.  It was erased \
-long ago from the squirrel, even \
-the possibility of falling was erased \
-from his being by the slow inexorable evolution \
-of squirrels, that is why all squirrels \
-are so full in themselves, full in who they are.
-
-[birds singing]: mountain.html
-[dance]: movingsideways.html