Said the Squirrel

from Husavik by Lisa Cantrell

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Said the squirrel to the man through the window, "What's it like on the other side? Does it tingle when you laugh? What does it feel like to have a human wife, a garden, and a child? Does it burn when you fall in love? Does it hurt when water drips from the corner of those eyes? What is like to mess up and then to feel forgiveness? What's it like to be cruel and to know how to lie?"

Well I guess it goes like this: you take it as it comes and you take what you can get, bearing the weight of all the air of the lives that came before yours, your body makes body shapes and you move.

Said the man through the window to the dragonfly, "I'd like to fly a day in those shoes, know what it's like to not feel shame, what its like to have the earth as your garden and to not have a name. Does it burn when the sun hits your back? Does it tingle when those wings fly? What's it like to never grieve, to never worry? What's it like to not be cruel and to never have cried?"

Well I guess it goes like this: you take it as it comes and you take what you can get, bearing the weight of all the air of the lives that came before yours, your body makes body shapes and you move.

We are ashes to ashes; we are stardust to dust. We are all in separate boats on the same sea.

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from Husavik, released November 6, 2013

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