<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><div class=""><span class="">Maple Seeds and Squirrels</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>How amazing it is <div class="">that maple seeds spinning their way down</div><div class="">nourish squirrels</div><div class="">and seeds of all sorts birds feed on</div><div class="">to fly on air that supports bats and flying bugs</div><div class="">who do their own feeding dance </div><div class="">and all so obvious and miraculous at once</div><div class="">and all so at once that time can hold and carry us</div><div class="">until we fall away to spin like maple seeds</div><div class="">and the urgency of sperm and egg</div><div class="">mates new us's to continue spinning </div><div class="">down through whispering atmosphere</div><div class="">thick enough to caress with the wings of our souls</div><div class="">thin enough to let us go when time tells us so.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Tim Hicks</div><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "></div></div></div></body></html>