Speed

Bursting, bounding, blazing, blasting; 
branches breaking, birch boughs blurring, 
buried boulders being bashed by boots;
battering, bruising, blackberry brambles,

she shot; 
sprinting, 
spittle-spitting, 
screaming,
singing, 
sundering scarlet sumac screens, 
seeking, scrying, secret solitude,
simple, silent, safety,
solace…

The thing kept up.