TO MOVE LIKE A GHOST

I walk like a ninja,

Or, perhaps, a ballerino,

Stepping delicately

In counterpoint to

My natural

All-American male,

Mountain man,

Walk, yet, perhaps

Not so strange, for,

To eat,

To survive,

A mountain man,

Had to move like

A ghost

Through the woods,

To evade the foe,

And find his food.

• Donovan Baldwin