Slippy underfoot, the leaves half mulch half maple colour, roots wild and twisting as a Chinese painting, dragon dawdling round and up and underneath, the trees acting like they've no connection to the knobbly turning round and round roots that border and hem stitch the surface of the path.
So you focus and you're careful while the hard uneven roots lift you up and land you in another time though you can't quite say what time, no specific memory, but a rolling time you travel on the surface of, an every time, you recognize the bony hard surface so uneven it could trip you up, so you focus hard and love it harder and that's how you recognize this bony path, like stony path, every hot stony path you have ever walked on.
Near Agios Stefanos, Corfu
Especially with a river you can overlook or best of all, a green ocean far below, a steep drop from the curving path of roots you stand on, steep and sheer, impassable to the water down below.
Looking down from a stony path to Porto Timoni, Corfu
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