Their strict barks floating
in the last light, beech, maple, locust,
even a raft of birch, gray, flickering.
The day’s great eye is open wide
to the sunset. Inside the pupil
I see the strict march of the trees
forward, one foremost, blazing,
and then another, the white sycamores
branching out like nerves
behind them.
Sundown
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