Invasive

Even the limestone Even the limestone Caleium carbonate deposits of drifters passing through, making the most of the water like the rest of us, those first waves of mollusks & corals jugt looking for structure, something solid, becoming it instead--shells & skeletons, the grand finale to every American Dream when it's all said and done, To be forgotten by the waking world, to combine into raw earth, the bones of what is to come, & with patience, they, too became natives... Even. the first ones Even the first ones Wherever they came from, poured into the peninsula from above, or bubbling up from canoes oared through eracks in the bottom-- the grasses « gators side-eyeing the newcomers, half submerged in lazily dragging freshwater which could not justify itself without the teeming society of productive life succeeding it-- & so the limestone was nativized, & the fresh water was nativized & the grasses, mangroves, manatees & crocodiles, fungi, snails, herons, panthers, gators & men | were nativized, _confederated into one place, one ecosystem many, none least bit aware being "