Afternoon
Earth tips to the west And the hills lean backward — Cedar-trees Hugging the hillsides. Smoke drifts in the valley — The pinto sun Nickers over the gate Of the home corral.
Alice Corbin Henderson
Earth tips to the west And the hills lean backward — Cedar-trees Hugging the hillsides. Smoke drifts in the valley — The pinto sun Nickers over the gate Of the home corral.
A late afternoon settles over a western landscape, the kind where the world feels like it’s gently exhaling. The earth seems to tip toward the setting sun, and the hills themselves lean back as if easing into rest. Cedar trees clutch the slopes, their dark shapes anchored against the fading light.
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