Everyday rain or shine for the past year <br />The same grey squirrel scratches at the eaves of my roof <br />He is trying to gain access to my attic <br />Where he can breed more scratching rodents <br />The life expectancy of a squirrel being that of a year or two <br />He has much work to attend to while… <br />His mate gathers nuts from the Pecan tree that overhangs the roof <br />Their children hurriedly bury the freshly hulled nuts in the ground below <br />From the sharp shooting eyes of the many Crows <br />Perched next door in the Magnolia tree just waiting for them to leave <br />I sit in my chair and type my will and epitaph <br />Leaving my nuts to God<br /><br />Ted Sheridan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-sound-of-nuts-cracking/
