Florida is a wild place; downright primordial. From here, a civilized private beach within earshot of easy resort living but far from home; it's easy to imagine again how it first looked, a bang; then life organized around new goals. Messy at first, haphazard at best.
Squinting west, through now unfamiliar humidity, I see a past life lived with such fierce abandon that it could have never been just one and never that long ago.

On and on down the line
I've swam canals and bore the hide
Of plenty births along this ride of being born again

"Born Again," Purgatory
Sir Timothy Tyler Childers

1713, 120121
Hammock Beach, Florida Bay
Key Largo, Florida