Quantum Squirrel

.
squirrel not much bigger
than a bluebird
…………………………….  leaps
like light
………………. from
………………………   pole
…………… to
………………….. pine

darts
down
its
trunk
I
barely catch your moves,
quantum squirrel,
the way you tear through time, your
then-to-then
futurepast combined
animates space
simultaneously elsewhere
………………..entangled
 out of time
…………………at the wisteria
………at the wall
before I’ve
had a chance to blink,
to conjure thoughts,
………a chance to think—
……………….. before I’ve had
……. a chance to change
my mind

Jim Culleny
July 10, 2009

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