leaf-sheaves

Updated: May 12, 2025

Soon it is merely a question of days the swelling buds displace millions of leaf-sheaves, pale green and fragile, which fall and, curling in on themselves, redden, and again the yellow sand is littered, while overhead fresh foliage, changing rapidly from golden, glistening brown to rich dark green, makes one compact blotch.

E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield - Tropic Days