the wide boulevards of king coyote's city were lined with trees whose arching limbs closed over the ashlars to form a rustling vault. the undersides of the leaves were silver and seemed to cast a gentle light, and the branches were filled with violet and magenta bromeliads the size of kettles, making a sweet sharp smell, aswarm with ruby - throated hummingbirds and filled with water where tiny fluorescent frogs and beetles lived. 