“Nothing anywhere else is like them…”
“There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth, remote, never wholly known. Nothing anywhere else is like them.” — Marjory Stoneman Douglas… It got silent in our kayak, somewhere past the half-way mark of the 5.5-mile canoe trail through Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge.
This Wind
I’ve been working on a series of poems that describe and honor local State Parks and nature preserves. Here is the first of them, written a few weeks ago.
–This Wind–
