Lulu Key, Ten Thousand Islands – February 25, 2013
Civilization doesn’t fade, it doesn’t wind down, it ends in a twenty-story tower with old men staring over balconies and through glass windows reflecting the sun. It ends on a seawall of rock crowded with fishermen and a beach crowded with towels and pink skin. It ends in pavement and palm trees that stand guard like toy soldiers pressed out of a single mold.
But it ends, somehow it ends, and I slip past to a place beyond condos rising in the sky, beyond beaches covered in bright umbrellas, beyond the last mansion built on stilts.
It feels like the edge of a cliff, like I reached the end and leapt back in time, leapt beyond civilization’s grasp to a place where I can breathe again, leapt into ten thousand islands floating on sky blue water.
Cool! Guess I’ll have to make it to LuLu Key one day.
Glad you made it..got your postcard, THANKS! Keep in touch wi your new friends in Suwannee.
Carol
beautiful