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| 2 | title: The squirrel | ||
| 3 | genre: verse | ||
| 4 | |||
| 5 | id: squirrel | ||
| 6 | toc: "The squirrel" | ||
| 7 | |||
| 8 | project: | ||
| 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 | ||