HeyJaredTom Poland: A Southern Writer
If you like the South, backroads, nature, and extraordinary places and people, you'll like my work.
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Lowcountry Illusion (opens the original)
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The Mullet Man (opens the original)
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Part I—The January sun has climbed high over Edisto, and the land is heating up. It’s noon at Mead’s Landing and a Lowcountry renegade is running late for our rendezvous.The tide is running out, and a porpoise surfaces with predictable regularity as it feeds against the flow. The smooth grey skin shimmers. The porpoise surfaces near a cormorant, and the bird scrambles into an ungainly takeoff. Flailing the surface, the bird barely clears the estuary, wing tips slapping the water like a heavily l
Back Road Redemption (opens the original)
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I left the Empire State of the South for the Palmetto State. The border, minutes away, brought “Blue Sky” to mind. “Goin’ to Carolina, won’t be long ’til I’ll be there.”My mission? To capture fleeting salvation along the back roads.I crossed where the Savannah River once ran. Sunlight rained liquid gold, the sky intensified to deep blue, and cottony clouds glossed whiter than white. I took Highway 28 toward Plum Branch where I turned left onto Highway 283, a road that suggests the South of the 1
Bleached Birds—Photo Of The Week (opens the original)
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Seventh Son On Sacred Ground (opens the original)
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