Flordacana Sept 2012 #3

pea hens will eat corn dogs. there are canebreaks and cotton mouths in the hearts of palm.

" a small spoil island", "an alligator is an anachronism that can eat you." -- Karen Russell, Swamplandia

Weeki Wachee Springs, built on on an Indian burial mound, oldest FL roadside attraction--across the big highway from a Dollar Tree and RV lot.

When I got home after the Springs, it was tepid out. Got in the little pool on the back porch. Overcast sky through the screen; lizards clung to the buggy mesh, throats pulsing. I stood still, in the shallow end for so long (a book propped up on the crumbling deck at chest level) that a thin belt-- the lacing together of minuscule black legs, all akimbo, these dead froglets--ringed my waist.