Summer Nights in Michigan

Moon flowers open

Cicadas and crickets sing

As a barred owl hoots in the dark--

Flies on silent wings

Hides in a white pine.

The moon shines bright tonight

Mars blinks red over the lake

And Venus shines her light

And Lake Michigan reflects it back.

Orion strides with his bright belt

as his hunting dog tags behind.

I delight in these sights and sounds

On August nights in Michigan.