Cameron Brooks

Cameron Brooks is a poet and essayist from the Great Plains. He holds an M.A. in theological studies from Princeton Seminary (2018) and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Seattle Pacific University (expected 2024). He is Managing Editor of Vanora, an artist collaboration project that he co-founded in 2019. Cameron's poetry has appeared widely in-print and online through such venues as Poetry East, Third Wednesday, North Dakota Quarterly, and Ad Fontes Journal. Feel free to contact Cameron or follow him on Instagram.

The Seagull Scans a Fallow Field

The seagull scans

a fallow field
in search of God

knows what.
Have you lost your way,

mistaking this God

forsaken wilderness

for the shores you were

created for?

Perhaps you were gulled

by the Prairie
waves into believing

that you had discovered country

good for more

than flying over—

maybe even a place

to stay; it's okay,
so did we.

Read more of Cameron’s work in Solum Journal Volume III and Solum Journal Volume IV.