Summer’s Gloaming

hot dog dusk
playing catch until
it’s too dark to see

Cynthia Anderson
Yucca Valley, California, USA
www.cynthiaandersonpoet.com

playground at dusk
long shadows running ahead
the little people

Ella Aboutboul
West Sussex, United Kingdom
Website/social media

sultry night
I move to the dark to absorb
the ocean coolness

Maya Daneva
Enschede, The Netherlands
Website/social media

sweltering dusk...
my fingers stick
to the grapes

Shloka Shankar
Bangalore, Karnataka, India
https://www.shlokashankar.com
Instagram: @shloks23

Editor Bio: Jennifer Gurney lives in Colorado where she teaches, paints, writes and hikes. Her poetry is widely published, two of her poems have won international contests and one was turned into a choral piece. Jennifer has four books of published poetry, My Eyes Adjusting (2024), Liquid Sky (2025), Love’s Echolocation (2025) and Light Matters More (2025, forthcoming). In just over two and a half years, more than 1,500 of Jennifer’s poems have been published. She is also delighted to be a guest editor for Haiku Girl Summer.

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