I happened to look where I was about to put my foot down just in time to see there was a grasshopper in the shadow of my imminent step. I recognized its hind legs, bent into the trademark triangles of its kind. It waited, poised to live up to its name, until right before

Pavement hopper

Grasshopper

Evaded

Centimeters away

… from m,making his way to a new life

He could be a man, he could be a blade of grass, but he would be different.