Pic(k)of the Week: Underfoot

Every time I walk down

into the hollow

through the winter woods

or up the mountain again,

I stop right here.

Standing on the packed earth

at an old logging road

where the creek slips quietly

through its rusty culvert

underfoot,

I'm not so much listening as feeling

a kind of tickling caress

through the soles of my shoes

and I recognize

a crossing of paths, a choice,

a way back,

if I could only turn

and follow.

— Underfoot

Stephen Wing (Atlanta, Georgia)

There were no logging roads or mountains in the parkland of this cemetery...but there were a creek and a culvert, hilly inclines, winter woods, a crossing of paths...and, considering the solemnity of the surroundings, places, like this, where one could quietly contemplate the feel of the earth underfoot.

Decatur Cemetery: City of Decatur, Georgia, USA. 25 January 2025.

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Teddy Wilson: Sweet Lorraine

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• Poem plaque installed in the park by Georgia Poetry in the Parks, with support from:
  • Academy of American Poets
  • Georgia Center for the Book
  • DeKalb County Public Library
  • DeKalb Library Foundation
  • Georgia Council for the Arts


• Pic(k) of the Week: one in a weekly series of images posted on Saturdays.
• Photo 5 of 52, for year 2025. See a larger, hi-res version on Flickr: here.
• Commercial reproduction requires explicit permission, as per Creative Commons.


• Camera: Olympus OM-D E-M10 II
• Lens: Olympus M.40-150mm F4.0-5.6 R
• Settings: 53 mm; 1/160 sec; ISO 400; ƒ/5.6


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