Seen

Poetry by Jennifer Campbell

After being unseen
for so long
     a whiteout weekend
color drew us
     outdoors away
from anything but
a good lens
to document
the summer hues
layering the sky
two days after
a blizzard

blood orange poet’s sky
     spread across suburbs
and hard hit city center
cummings’ pied piper
     guiding walks
through soft swaths of pink
     carnation   coral    watermelon
     to tangerine    persimmon    flame
so many colors to consume
under a slim December moon

Jennifer Campbell is an English professor in Buffalo, NY, and a co-editor of Earth’s Daughters. She has two full-length poetry collections, and her chapbook What Came First was published by Dancing Girl Press in 2021. Jennifer’s work has recently appeared in Caesura, Flare, and Indefinite Space.