Crossroads
Yes, yes,
Bubba’s met his Maker, but other life continues
in the jumble. Initially, this is how the Big Thicket
strikes you: a bewildering wilderness. The confusion
is multiple, since the National Preserve is scattered
over bits of seven counties. The Thicket of memory
(more than a million acres of density in 1936) is
gone, gone the way of the extinct ivory-billed woodpecker.
But possible sightings of this rare bird have been
reported, and though the Thicket is so much smaller
now, at first blush, the fragments still give the
impression that there’s no there there.
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