he is so full in himself how far down the branch to run how long to jump when to grab the air and catch in it and turn and land on branch so gracefully it is like dying alone and warm in a bed next to a summer window and the birds singing and on that branch there is the squirrel dancing among the branches and you think what if he fell but he wo not because he's a squirrel and that's what they do dance and never fall it was erased long ago from the squirrel even the possibility of falling was erased from his being by the slow inexorable evolution of squirrels that is why all squirrels are so full in themselves full in who they are