bonelike

Updated: June 12, 2025

Draped in long streamers of Spanish moss which were delicately swayed by an almost imperceptible current of air, this was a ghoulish place suggesting a rookery for shrouded spirits which perched along the bonelike branches awaiting their resurrection. Here, too, upon some convenient root of these gray ancients perhaps the longest lived of our southern trees lay coiled the dozing moccasin.

Credo Fitch Harris - Wings of the Wind