(If you could be any Animal) The First thing I can remember writing was about squirrels

We shared the trees.
Climbing,
always to greater hights,
and I would watch
and wish
I could make those
graceful
(sometimes graceless)
leaps
from tree to tree,
traversing the canopy,
this boundry between
earth and space.
Always a child
with one foot
not firmly
planted.