Poem 26 (57) -- Quick, look up! What do you see?
Mikka Mi Amor Bones Kendall
Quick, look up! What do you see?
It’s a couple of squirrels
running through the tree.
What if they were you and me?
With our beady little eyes
What would we see?
There, in the window, is it me and you?
No furry bodies? No bushy tails?
Lying in bed all day, nothing to do…
How foreign then would be our life?
For if we were squirrels,
You would not be my wife.
Perish the thought! For I have this to say,
If we were tree-dwellers,
I’d share my branch with you any day.
Poem 26 - Page 57
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This one is based on real squirrels!
When we lived in Silverlake, a section of Los Angeles near downtown, our apartment had a second storey. It was on a hillside and there were a bunch of trees out of our back window. Good thing, too, as the leaves helped drown out the constant hum of the freeway.
In these branches, we used to see squirrels all the time. They would surely see us, too. We made eye contact infrequently, however.
This poem was based on this picture: