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2 | title: 'Squirrel' | ||
3 | project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves' | ||
4 | ... | ||
5 | |||
6 | He is so full in himself: \ | ||
7 | how far down the branch to run, \ | ||
8 | how long to jump, when to grab the air \ | ||
9 | and catch in it and turn, and land on branch \ | ||
10 | so gracefully it's like dying, alone \ | ||
11 | and warm in a bed next to a summer window \ | ||
12 | and the birds singing. And on that branch there \ | ||
13 | is the squirrel dancing among the branches \ | ||
14 | and you think What if he fell? but he won't \ | ||
15 | because he's a squirrel and that's what \ | ||
16 | they do, dance and never fall. It was erased \ | ||
17 | long ago from the squirrel, even \ | ||
18 | the possibility of falling was erased \ | ||
19 | from his being by the slow inexorable evolution \ | ||
20 | of squirrels, that is why all squirrels \ | ||
21 | are so full in themselves, full in who they are. | ||