They lay like giant slain dinosaurs. Trees uprooted is not adequate. Huge trunks, splayed branches so enormous kids climb across their breath, barely balancing themselves as we took pictures.
Circular and oblong ripped patches of grass and dirt clinging to the bottom of each trunk, naked roots exposed, gaping mouths of shocked soil.
Tree after tree in this section of Braddock Park in North Bergen under grey guardian clouds with not a breeze to play court jester. These were dignified pillars.
Some remained barely touched. Why? Violence is fickle, cruel, impatient, unpredictable.
Pond ducks glide nonchalantly, perhaps bemused, more likely, indifferent. Some spit at the sky, as to say, What else ya got?
Hudson County ducks.
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