Broken Soil
The broken soil of Africa
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3 min readJul 22, 2020
The broken soil is what stays behind weeks and months after the last rainfall. It is a sign that there was precipitation. Was. It is a sign that every bit of moisture is gone. Now.
It is just sand. Dried up sand. Sand compressed in blocks. Or bricks. Pieces of broken soil.
The water moved back. What stays behind is a landscape of this. Plants surrounding dry soil.
As the heat removes all the moisture out of the soil it gets compressed and brakes. One by one.
There are some survivors out there. In the broken scenery. Survivors like this one. Who grow in between. Who grow in the gaps.
