A Squirrelly Haiku
How To Confuse A Squirrel
The other day I stumbled across an interesting scene. Someone had cut down an older tree that was close to a fairly large two story building. The tree was a large tree, the sort that is a shade tree in summer, and the sort that needed many bags to contain the raked up leaves in the fall. In winter, when the leaves fell, the tree allowed the warmth of the sun to shine through.
It was an oak, and its greatest fan was a squirrel.
When I first noticed the squirrel, he was shivering but motionless. He was at the edge of the roof-line of the building. The spot he had stopped at was clearly the same spot where he normally would have jumped from the roof to a nearby branch of the oak tree.
But the branch was there no more. The tree was gone.
I paused to, to take in the full scene.
We often make jokes about people acting 'squirrelly'. It is something else altogether to see a squirrel that is righteously confused.
Trained Squirrels Use Sidewalks
Squirrel Haiku
Squirrel perched on roof edge high,
A little gargoyle,
His tail not twitching
Hawk sits higher in a tree,
Watching for movement.
Vultures are circling.
Mighty oak from acorns grow,
Squirrel played his role,
Buried acorn tree.
Tree cut down has no more leaves,
To foul the downspout.
Mans problem is solved.
Squirrel perched on roof edge high,
Wanting to jump, but,
Sanctuary gone.
