Beyond Entropy

Atop the rotting trunk a veritable
green nursery flourishes, replete
with miniature shrubs and
tree saplings eager to experience
life of their own in the general melee
of rank disorder. Supported by the
decomposition of earlier generations
life thrives as death marches on.
The forest, primal in its capacity
to regenerate timelessly reiterates
itself. Larvae laid by boring
beetles bring the collapse of once
sturdy conifers. Fungi make their
presence on buried, desiccated
tree remnants. Wild gusts of wind
heave hollow, rotted trunks to
shatter on the fern-crusted 
forest floor, out-competing the 
sweet-trilled cardinal with the
violent agony of another tree
felled by age and predation. The
forest is untidily littered with
remains of once-majestic hardwoods
that time and lifespan have abandoned.
Time trickles by with each new season 
invariably producing succession.