Candle flicker Keeps mosquitos away The wind is picking up No sound to be heard but paper crumpling rustle of aspens A **** seagull squaks; only here This is desert living Desert loving We have a porch It kind of feels like heaven Just the moon and lamplights And pajamas with no undergarments Citronella smell Dry breeze Skin no longer chapped Weathered from my initiation During the apex of summer when I read outside at midnight