Photo of redwood trees at dusk by Francesca Varela

Redwoods at Dusk

Sunlight 
frayed
silken
curtained
through
dusk branches,
dust twinkling
in the way of
fireflies,
ferns
sorrel
and huckleberry starts
quivering
as low-down sunlight
slants their leaves
with
waning warmth
and the wind
carries
far-off fog
and
river smells
and the canopy
above them
turns
in the other wind
the hidden wind
that never reaches
the ground.

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