“Virgo Season” by Jarrod Campbell

Now onto nights when the silvery moon

extends its monochrome to anything

pale and prepared to reflect,

absorb,

and forecast the cooler nights

that once the sun retreats further afield

will chill to the marrow

our already white bones,

all ready for the dead of winter.

Jarrod Campbell is an author living in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, DC. His stories, essays and reviews have appeared online and in print. He is currently working on a new collection of stories, a novel, and a play to be performed in 2023.