southern sloth
morning in the delta.
i just woke up in a new subdivision on an old soybean field in a sand/clay-layered section of the kudzu south. hardwood deciduous bottom lands. nothing new to this story. mom moved 15 miles further east away from the city and has a new car for weekly ventures to the clothing stores and the grocery. the cops are always watching out here, trying to keep it safe for money to move out this way, almost an hour from the crumbling 3rd-world city these sprawling suburbs create. crime is up in the delta.
this is my favorite time of year in the south. the mosquitoes and wasps are gone, moccasins and copperheads asleep. walking through the woods is alot easier; the underbrush is all dead. the colors are gorgeous. tufts of dead grass highlight the golds, browns, greys of the sky and earth. exactly how las pampas will look if i walk south for 6 months past 100 degrees of latitude.
the loosahatchie river runs toward town about 5 miles north of here. saw a new subdivision on the wolf river's floodplain yesterday while driving to my grandmother's house. lawsuits will fly within a year or 2 when they start getting flooded out. somebody's getting paid big bucks to give the ok on these permits. and the corp of engineers probably wont update their floodplain maps for another 20 years....
