Saturday, April 15, 2006

Guard Duty


Ground-hop gently
mother squirrel
and carry your burden softly

pause long
to look
at me

hold your young
by the nape
and squirrel-climb the maple

jump -
all the way over
to pine branches

your young in nest,
keep guard
at the branch

4 comments:

Neetee said...

I can see her.

What a sweet melody.

steve said...

queen neetee - thank you - she was watching pretty carefully I thought. Took this picture and went away so she could be in peace. That's a good sized squirrel nest on the right.

Pat Paulk said...

Those pesky squirrels keep showing up!!

floots said...

i like 'em
nice word pic