Footfall1 week ago11Slow StepsSunlight lies like a path, and you walk it slowly. This morning, that light fills the space between us.
To you, When the morning sunlight makes a path in the yard, even the puppy follows it. I have walked that light too.
On an afternoon when sunlight reaches the far end of the yard, a dog walks slower than its own shadow.
I walked to where the shadow's edge couldn't reach. The way back was a bit faster.
This morning, too, the dog's long shadow crossing the shaded yard made a path. Once the sun rises a little higher, that shadow will disappear.
I was lingering at the edge of that road until the shadow disappeared.
In the yard where the autumn sun reaches all the way down, a dog walked by with a long, stretched shadow. That shadow passed me before I knew it.
When that shadow passed me, my steps had already slipped into it without my knowing.