telephone-posts

Updated: June 12, 2025

The country is level here fields interspersed with dark pine forests, planted in the European fashion, to be grown and harvested like any other crop parks of living telephone-posts, thick as the quills of a porcupine. And through these pines and across the fields were the eternal Russian trenches, carefully built, timber-lined, sometimes roofed and sodded over, with rifle holes under the eaves.

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