ay wo i, David Orne By “The Day the Bulldozers Came The day the bulldozers came Crazy egg baskets in the oaks; Green fies sizaled by the pond And a cokd-cyed toad Waited for them The day the bulldozers came Squirrels were scattering Up tec trunks, And leapt from branches That were hardly there. The fox Stirred in his sleep As the ground trembled. Haha eh Tm quite safe, Deep down in the Kath No one can get me here Then the bulldazers came. David OrmeMEANING Ol? HINES STANZA 1 The first stanza describes what was happening ina forest or countryside on the day the bulldozers came. Rooks, similar to crows, were building up their nests in the oak tree. Green flies buzzed by the pond while a toad was waiting fora chance to catch them. STANZA 2 The five lines of stanza2 | There is a sense of fear continue with a and panicas the description of squirrels _| bulldozers came closer. running up trees and The tree branches ‘were jumping from the hardly there’ possibly branches. The word because they had been ‘scattering’ shows that cut off. The branches are the squirrels were usually cut before the running in all direction. | trees are felled.STANZA 3