Can woodchucks run in reverse?
Recently, my mother told her friends and I a funny story about a woodchuck. I googled "poems about woodchucks" and could find only two and they were mean! So, I decided to write about her encounter:
ENCOUNTER WITH AN AGILE MARMOT
It’s woodchuck season again.
In fields and woodlands
they abound.
I drive slowly,
knowing they’re around.
The “land beaver” or “whistlepig”
is a climber like its squirrel cousin,
only much bigger.
“Woodchuck” has roots in
Native American:
wejack, woodshaw, wuchak,
and monax, the “digger”.
A few days ago
my mother told a story
of a ‘chuck that ran
in front of her motorcycle.
She claimed it pedaled straight backward.
Can they do that?
Surely, that’s a first????
The very next day
one waddled in front of my truck.
I braked and it turned
and walked back to the grass.
I guess his gears did not
include “reverse”.
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