The trees of evening
are filled, a sieve of leaves and small birds,
the resident choir offering
an evening orison
of twitter.

But look! high on the power line
a singular sentinel robin conducts
the evening’s benediction of western light
glittering across the bay, between the islands,
all the way to Canada.

 

 

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Luci Shaw is writer in residence at Regent College and the author of over forty books of poetry and creative nonfiction. Her newest collection, Angels Everywhere, is forthcoming from Paraclete.