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Plantation

Ellie Shumaker

Too late for the tour and the history lesson,too late in the season on this southern plantation,and the ancient, front-line cedar soldiersbacked up by a strong regiment of holliesare...

Feast

Ellie Shumaker

This feast of a day on the river      is heavily salted with gulls. And the leaf-pared birch on the shoreline      is lightly peppered with crows,...