There is a section of grass in Green Brook Park that is so soft and cool

when you run on it in bare feet

that you could be attracted to it and be addicted to it

like a drink or a drug or a lover

and run on it over and over.

 

Yesterday I ws doing that

and a deer saw me and watched me for a while.

He was a medium buck with about 5 points on his rack.

I wonder what he was thinking about this running human

barefoot and shirtless running over the cool soft grass and smiling.

 

I guess it spooked him

because he took off towards the Green Brook

flying over the grass and the overgrown weedy bushes that line the running water.

And this is what I was thinking:

Was I invading his space, or was he invading mine?