Tall Ships

by | Jun 1, 2000 | Read, Hemispheres

I have been too long and far away from the sea. The Jeep I’m driving leans and nods through the blacktop turns and asphalt swells, rolling and banking, afloat on the hard ground and awash in new spring green. In the middle distance, a squadron of high-voltage towers stalks across the farmland, erect and resolute against the rise and fall of the undulating countryside.

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