Squirrel

Fast-footed twitcher of nervous tics
Short-armed dancer of the day
Housed among the boughs and sticks
And leaves of autumn’s sad decay
You dart
As nimble shadows fall
To spring full-cheeked in big-eyed start
Upon my garden wall.
Not being European I,
Watch laughing at your selfish glut,
While you peer back with greedy eye,
And steal another nut.

Karin Cox

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