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Meet Virginia’s Poets #21 in the series offered to Virginia’s newspapers Special from The Poetry Society of Virginia Martha Steger, Director of Public Relations for the Virginia Tourism Corporation, is a Chesterfield County resident and a native of the Eastern Shore County of Accomack. She is a graduate of The College of William and Mary and has received awards for poetry and short fiction. Summer at City Point Grant has learned about besieging at Vicksburg last spring and summer and now heard the chatter of City Point bank swallows as he tunneled and trenched toward Petersburg, herons skimming the James for food as he set up his own food chain from the James and Appomattox to the hungry Billy Yanks digging in; under this pine tree had his picture taken as he wondered how long it would all take. My retriever darts into the low canopy of crepe myrtle, fig bushes, grape arbor Dr. Eppes and family left behind as his family fled these federals. Beetles now carnage only the honeysuckle, tulip vine; mourning doves coo in tree tops; we have no quail or men to bear down on, my retriever and I - - only fun and frolic in the morning’s haze before the tourists come. |
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