Forest Walk

By Kristine O'Connell George
I’m practicing my
         I-belong-here
         no-twig-snap
         no-leaf-rustle
         no-branch-crack
         see-all, know-all
         float-like-fog
         like-smoke
         pine-needle-soft
         forest walk. 
No one will know I’m coming.
No one will know when I’m gone.

 

Copyright Credit: Kristine O’Connell George, "Forest Walk" from Toasting Marshmallows, Camping Poems. Copyright © 2001 by Kristine O’Connell George. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Source: Toasting Marshmallows, Camping Poems (Houghton Mifflin, 2001)