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 not telling what they know. . . . . Continue Reading »

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, And from dawn’s appetizer      to the entree of noon,      to the hungering sweetness . . . . Continue Reading »