20 Poems by Tom Crider

Selected Poems by Tom Crider

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The Optimist

Squirrel squats

at the base of a tree

considering possibilities

turns. climbs

up up runs

along a branch

hands and feet alive to

each bump crack lump

squirrel stops

looks up

then

leaps tongue tasting

the tang of

being airborne then

swings

into the possibilities of the

next tree.