Early Evening

My favourite time of all.

The sun has just set,

sloped down between the hills' dark shoulders;

sky is still luminous with light.

in the no-wind

the trees are still, stopped - 

leaves and branches motionless.

moths and insects flit and

skitter in the dark, 

small blips against the bright/dark sky.

Even-ing out the day, dusk

spreads quiet to lie about the mounds 

of trees and hills, sculpted into dark.

4th November 2010

Alexia