The Effect Fleeing From Large Dogs Has On Young Children

White grass

tips crunched under

cherry heels. Prickly-pear

paws pursued

four-legged-fast

under a moon-jaw grinbark barking
hey slow down!

I kept running, beating faster

then tumbled, slipped

slapped

slid.

Fluffy boredom met my horror

like through a door in a picket fence

to say hellow.

My breathed escaped in thick

white laces

when I learned how to run away

at age five.