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