Tag: swamp
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Steps From Wet Ankles
Seasons cycle, and storms come. Trees rooted in soil that is dark muck between loose stones over bedrock carrying seeping groundwater to soil a bit lower, to true freshwater deciduous swamp forest — trees still on the verge of land, spongy land — don’t all get to stay fully upright their whole lives. As seen…
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Not A Fish
Common, common … and singular. Leaves fallen between trunks of trees growing up from the same root mass showing a distinctive eye-catching pattern, that’s common. Trees growing that way in a swamp, stormfallen leaves, common, common. The appearance of a fish, a salmon that has spawned to be specific, in such a cleft, that happens…
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Swamp Life
The soil mostly isn’t very firm. And it’s an easy place for a forest to grow, with no shortage of water. For each tree, though? Some get to live out a full life upright, but there’s a lot of, it depends.