underfoot

We looked at the house off-the-grid
on Egypt Lane, rejected it. Back
to Deb’s for soup and then
some hiking on her property. No,
don’t wear your sneakers. Soggy streams,
mud crystallized with ice, trippy sticks
and roots, slick mud, gravel, thick
duff, slippery grass, the most luxurious
cushiony emerald mosses (many kinds), two
little lakes obstruct the logging road.