A pile of acorns gathered by some
squirrel stocking up for a winter that
without a doubt will eventually come.
Fighting for food with mouse and bird and rat
hoping to have enough to last it all
winter, hiding the nuts beneath the soil
during the seasons: spring, summer, and fall,
in a place the squirrel knows they won't spoil.
What was this place like before settlers came
and tamed the land with orchards and buildings?
block after block of buildings all the same
without a care of the squirrel's feelings.
No more trees to climb up or ditches to
hide in and no more rivers to swim through.
"More than Light" by Kenneth Larot Yamat
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