three tails
three tailsinto the fray -- day's daily daily
sprang two squirrels' twitching tails
-- both of them
with one very small
tail of chipmunk
-- dash of frenetic delight
in titillating
-- tow
below bird feeder's
bounty
into rising light
another day's dalliance
foraging for food -- again
-- pause from time to time
scanning sky for
raptors' flight
taught them by ancestors' gene pool
sanguine coloured memory
-- lest they become dinner
in lieu of having
their -- own
slender as new rain
thoughts -- intermittent
pass between squirrels'
and chipmunk brains
thoughts only creatures
of four legs know
two legged animals
have forgotten -- language of
once known
time and distance
have driven
apart
estranged in nature
and -- respect
squirrels and chipmunks
don't really understand
man has forgotten
to recall -- once known
even with their own
species
but squirrels and chipmunks
eat what falls from bird-feeders
just
the same.
vcp
2 April 2014
Poetry by Victor
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Written on 2014-04-03 at 21:17
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