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29 <h1 class="title">The squirrel</h1>
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39 <p><span class="line">He is so full in himself:</span><span class="line">how far down the branch to run,</span><span class="line">how long to jump, when to grab the air</span><span class="line">and catch in it and turn, and land on branch</span><span class="line">so gracefully it’s like dying, alone</span><span class="line">and warm in a bed next to a summer window</span><span class="line">and the <a href="mountain.html">birds singing</a>. And on that branch there</span><span class="line">is the squirrel dancing among the branches</span><span class="line">and you think <em>What if he fell?</em> but he won’t</span><span class="line">because he’s a squirrel and that’s what</span><span class="line">they do, <a href="movingsideways.html">dance</a> and never fall. It was erased</span><span class="line">long ago from the squirrel, even</span><span class="line">the possibility of falling was erased</span><span class="line">from his being by the slow inexorable evolution</span><span class="line">of squirrels, that is why all squirrels</span><span class="line">are so full in themselves, full in who they are.</span></p>
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