[2025:46] Anchored, Jenny Hockey

to drenched earth, I look up
into a spring tide of squirrels
ascending their vertical world
three times the height of our house,
upwards through brown turning
green, surfacing under the sky
into a dawn that’s yet to arrive
down here.

XXXXXShadow-tail,
what pact have you made
with gravity.

Squirrel: taken from the Ancient Greek word meaning “shadow-tailed.”