These lower reaches of the garganta have sat silent and seemingly barren for months.
Yet beneath that dry funeral dust a million life forms lie, each quietly waiting for the reanimating caress of water.
Soon, so very soon the limpid pools will form and start to spill one into the other until this stream finds its liquid voice once more.
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Photo: The garganta at Saladaviciosa. Courtesy of the author.