An element of shade is its
Color the silent cool of a
Lengthening lightless all.
An element of shade is its
No-smell and no-form,
Except, perhaps, in the old
Breezes beneath formed
Mammoth cracked trunks,
Ancient from before a stolid,
Lumbering s/he emerged
From all imagination, built
Of stars, sallying suns, dark
Light from between splayed
Fingers. Or branches, storing
Sifted cratefuls of nearly quiet
Cacophonous leaves. An
Element of shade is its soft,
Blurred, unformed wall.
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