<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="t1" style="width: 540px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="top" class="td2"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="t2" style="width: 540px;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="middle" class="td2"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">The Sun Underfoot Among the Sundews</font></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="t1" style="width: 540px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="top" class="td2"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: auto;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="middle" class="td3"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">An ingenuity too astonishing </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">to be quite fortuitous is </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">this bog full of sundews, sphagnum- </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">lined and shaped like a teacup. </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class=""> A step </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">down and you’re into it; a </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">wilderness swallows you up: </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">ankle-, then knee-, then midriff- </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">to-shoulder-deep in wetfooted </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">understory, an overhead </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">spruce-tamarack horizon hinting </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">you’ll never get out of here. </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class=""> But the sun </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">among the sundews, down there, </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">is so bright, an underfoot </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">webwork of carnivorous rubies, </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">a star-swarm thick as the gnats </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">they’re set to catch, delectable </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">double-faced cockleburs, each </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">hair-tip a sticky mirror </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">afire with sunlight, a million </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">of them and again a million, </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">each mirror a trap set to </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">unhand unbelieving, </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class=""> that either </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">a First Cause said once, “Let there </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">be sundews,” and there were, or they’ve </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">made their way here unaided </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">other than by that backhand, round- </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">about refusal to assume responsibility </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">known as Natural Selection. </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class=""> But the sun </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">underfoot is so dazzling </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">down there among the sundews, </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">there is so much light </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">in the cup that, looking, </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">you start to fall upward.</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Amy Clampitt</font></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>