Summer Night

-Jim Burns

Moon and stars,

icy light points

flicker in a

dome of

darkness.

Trees buzz

with cicada

singing a chorus,

we live,

we live.

Sleeping boy

in hammock

climbs a

starlit ladder

of dreams

to the future.

JIM BURNS was born and raised in rural Indiana and spent most of his working life as a librarian in Iowa and Florida. Retirement gifted him with free time, and he returned to a decades-old, but placed aside, interest in writing, especially poetry, several of his pieces having now appeared in Eucalyptus Lit, Skipjack Review, Ulu Review, and other online and/or print publications. He lives with his wife and dog in Jacksonville, Florida.

Appeared in rainy weather days volume 1, July 2024