Dubuque, Iowa

summer

A shutter on a camera blinks so fast / a deer disappears into woods

white puffy clouds easy to capture / a June moon: not so much

looks like a flashlight under the covers / the bodies in between—wear denim cut offs

the chess players at the next table / drinking a flight of beer

dancing in the tiny kitchen camper / dancing by the fire to Lord Huron

mosquitos avoid the campfire smoke /a whisper of fall wind / flashes over bare shoulders

like changing our mind

J. MacBain-Stephens lives in the midwest and likes to rock climb. Recent work can be read in The Pinch and Grist.