Friday, February 17, 2012

A Practical Squirrel


By Dan Hagen

Outside the third-floor window
Of the Physical Science Building
Atop the bare tree,
A gray squirrel
Skitters to a stop,
Sights, shifts tail slightly

Springs

Soars

Skims six sunny feet to seize
Safety with sangfroid.
No theoretician he.

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