The bloodshot water wallowed and surged, There were loathsome upthrows and overturnings Of waves and gore and wound-slurry.
Their preferred habitat includes refuge from heat and danger in the form of woodland, thickets, or reeds, pastures with medium to tall grass (preferably but not necessarily green), and access to water, wallows, and mineral licks.
Cramped into cages they can't event stand up in, or in cardboard boxes -- yes, cardboard boxes -- the chickens are out in the hot sun, without water, wallowing in feces.
I could leave without ever looking below the surface of the water, and Wallow would never know.
The river has carved out a plunge pool and we jump from the rocks into the cool water and wallow while small fish nibble at our toes.
At ancient man-made reservoirs, known as tanks, we watch water buffalo wallow in the shallows, while shy sambar deer tiptoe down to drink and wild boar root beneath the fringing trees.
We skim over fresh water, past wallowing buffalo, deeper into the forest.
One by one, we take turns in the Japanese-style bath, lowering ourselves into a cedar-edged tureen of steaming water and wallowing there until our road-tight muscles uncoil.
My journey takes me past rice fields with water buffalo wallowing in the river, women stooped over planting rice and children in their blue and white school uniforms who wave as they cycle to school.
We passed clear white beaches with crashing surf too dangerous to tempt, and then crossed gentle inlets and sea-bound streams where water buffalo wallowed and men under canopies of shade trees carved oceangoing prahus: a Southeast Asian landscape with the hint of a seafaring past.
