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In the old days, swampers was folk who lived in shacks near the salt marsh or on the creek, and got by digging clams and trapping crabs and lobster and selling salt hay to the farmers.

Or earlier to keep the marsh dry enough for cattle to graze on salt hay, the very plant that the saltmarsh sparrow nests in.

Mosquitoes buzz as Samantha Apgar holds aside a tangle of marsh grass, or salt hay, to show me the hidden nest.

Sea-cabbage; salt hay; sea-rushes; ooze—sea-ooze; gluten—sea-gluten; sea- scum; spawn; surf; beach; salt-perfume; mud; sound of walking barefoot ankle deep in the edge of the water by the sea.

Riding her into the Meadowlands with Daddy on a clear Saturday morning, letting her graze the salt hay and cordgrass.