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Lee Jones Photographs Crushed Shell tide photos by Lee Cantelon, text by Erica Funkhouser |
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| On the floor, chlorine. On the window, dry streams left by gulls. When tourists come to watch them working over belts of cod and hake, they don't look up. |  |
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| They stand above the gutter. When the belt starts they pack the bodies in, ten per box, their tales crisscrossed as if in sacrament. The dead fish fall compliantly. | |
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