Monday, March 3, 2014

black squirrel


Outside a black squirrel has wiggled
to the end
of a very skinny branch.

When the squirrel breathes
the whole tree shakes,

as if the squirrel were the soul
of the tree.

Have you ever felt like
such a tree?

Not sayin'
I have


-Joanna Fuhrman, excerpt from Song for Future Books 2014-

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