Sonoran Twilight

a sonnet of spring dusk

This week’s poem is a description of the arrival of dusk last Monday. Twilight lasts long and beautifully here. The desert light creates a bright sort of dusk in which the colors gradually fade to gray while still shedding a luminous visibility over the hillsides and valley.

The gentle falling of night was a good time to return to the Spenserian form fo…