Untamed Florida

What is this outpouring I have for untamed Florida?

I was thinking because the rock embodies the life of the sea, that this land represents an ancient cycle...What is true of untamed Florida however, is that this land has always been beaten and broken...formed, exposed, and risen to become itself again and again.

Untamed Florida is not young. Untamed Florida is free, open, receptive to what comes...untamed Florida is unafraid of the waves...is cleansed by the sea and ready.

I learn to love, watching the mangroves grow.

She who wades in rough waters...she who wades as the sun is setting, as the moon is rising...as the waters ebb and flow...Beach plants face the horizon with shallow roots and a taste for salt. An intrinsic aptitude, stamina for abrasion...Erosion.

I learn untamed, watching the mangroves grow.

circa 2016