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1 | --- | ||
2 | title: The squirrel | ||
3 | id: squirrel | ||
4 | genre: verse | ||
5 | |||
6 | project: | ||
7 | title: Elegies for alternate selves | ||
8 | class: elegies | ||
9 | order: 23 | ||
10 | prev: | ||
11 | - title: Spittle | ||
12 | link: spittle | ||
13 | next: | ||
14 | - title: Swan song | ||
15 | link: swansong | ||
16 | ... | ||
17 | |||
18 | He is so full in himself: \ | ||
19 | how far down the branch to run, \ | ||
20 | how long to jump, when to grab the air \ | ||
21 | and catch in it and turn, and land on branch \ | ||
22 | so gracefully it's like dying, alone \ | ||
23 | and warm in a bed next to a summer window \ | ||
24 | and the [birds singing][]. And on that branch there \ | ||
25 | is the squirrel dancing among the branches \ | ||
26 | and you think *What if he fell?* but he won't \ | ||
27 | because he's a squirrel and that's what \ | ||
28 | they do, [dance][] and never fall. It was erased \ | ||
29 | long ago from the squirrel, even \ | ||
30 | the possibility of falling was erased \ | ||
31 | from his being by the slow inexorable evolution \ | ||
32 | of squirrels, that is why all squirrels \ | ||
33 | are so full in themselves, full in who they are. | ||
34 | |||
35 | [birds singing]: mountain.html | ||
36 | [dance]: movingsideways.html | ||