Nuts

~ Harlan Didrickson 

Squirreled away 
like some 
errant nut
found beneath 
a tree
I wait
and wait 
for snow 
to fall 
and his 
abrupt return 
but what 
chance do 
I have 
when surrounded 
by so 
many other 
assorted nuts 
to be 
dinner or 
a tree