When we feed nuts
to the squirrel
at our back door
he seems remarkably clever
to come back for more.
Yet if, after day one,
he failed to come
then squirrels would seem
incredibly dumb.
Ciara MacLaverty, ‘Cracking the Code’
by permission of the poet
National Poetry Day in Scotland
Thursday 6 October 2016
poems about messages
Ciara MacLaverty, ‘Cracking the Code’
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