tamarisk-shrubs

Updated: May 18, 2025

The tamarisk-shrubs stood erect like dwarf pines clothed in sharp and rustling foliage, which seemed to be nourished on the salt carried in the atmosphere, their roots embedded in the rock. The wind on stormy days, as it swept away the sand, left bare their multiple, entangled roots, black and slender serpents in which Febrer's feet were often caught.

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez - The Dead Command: From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan