WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

April 25, 2004

Feeling Squirrelly

My squirrel name is:

Scratchy McTwitch

(Thanks BLTB for the link.)

Squirrel quarrels, or courtship, in the garden this morning. As with humans, it is sometimes difficult to tell.

{Have you ever noticed that squirrel is one of those words that starts to look really weird if you read it or write it over and over?)

Critters, Frivolity

2 responses to “Feeling Squirrelly”

Erin

April 25, 2004 at 6:38 pm

it’s from the Greek for ‘shadow tail’

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Big Sky Dave

April 25, 2004 at 8:11 pm

Hi Scratchy! You’re right – “squirrel” is a strange word…speaking, spelling, and even just looking at it too many times can convince you that it’s spelled wrong, for some reason!

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In these times of creative nonfiction and fictionalized memoirs, I think of the poem itself as true fiction: it is most likely not factual, but it must be true.

It is likely to be — it is best if it is — a truth I did not know before I wrote, and may not understand even then.

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Feeling Squirrelly

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