<!DOCTYPE html>
<!-- Template for compiled 'Autocento' documents -->
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="generator" content="pandoc">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=yes">
<meta name="author" content="Case Duckworth">
<!-- more meta tags here -->
<title>The squirrel | Autocento of the breakfast table</title>
<!-- general styles & scripts -->
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./css/common.css">
<script src="./js/lozenge.js" type="text/javascript"> </script>
<script src="./js/hylo.js" type="text/javascript"> </script>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./css/verse.css">
<script src="./js/verse.js" type="text/javascript"> </script>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./css/elegies.css">
<script src="./js/elegies.js" type="text/javascript"> </script>
<!--[if lt IE 9]>
<script src="http://html5shim.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"> </script>
<![endif]-->
<!-- <script src="js/external.js"> </script> -->
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<header>
<!-- title -->
<h1 class="title">The squirrel</h1>
</header>
<section class="thing verse">
<p>He is so full in himself:<br />how far down the branch to run,<br />how long to jump, when to grab the air<br />and catch in it and turn, and land on branch<br />so gracefully it’s like dying, alone<br />and warm in a bed next to a summer window<br />and the <a href="mountain.html">birds singing</a>. And on that branch there<br />is the squirrel dancing among the branches<br />and you think <em>What if he fell?</em> but he won’t<br />because he’s a squirrel and that’s what<br />they do, <a href="movingsideways.html">dance</a> and never fall. It was erased<br />long ago from the squirrel, even<br />the possibility of falling was erased<br />from his being by the slow inexorable evolution<br />of squirrels, that is why all squirrels<br />are so full in themselves, full in who they are.</p>
</section>
<nav>
<a class="prevlink" href="spittle.html">
Spittle
</a>
<a href="#" id="lozenge" title="Random page"> ◊ </a>
<a class="nextlink" href="swansong.html">
Swan song
</a>
</nav>
</div>
</body>
</html>