Halfway down: the sight of a doe through the trees in the meadow. I stopped to stare at her staring at me. The silence arced between us like a wire in a current that equaled strangeness over time, and since her stare was wild — so charged with fear the moment froze on the line of sky and field, man and deer — she broke our stillness in her flight from me. I stood alone but double then as the man on the path and the memory of the man she carried with her beyond the meadow into the next meadow and the meadow after that where she returned my image to the field of her forgetting in which I roamed like a deer myself, remembering.