The Library and Lamson Learning Commons welcomes the collaborative efforts of the PSU Poetry Club and Student Exhibitions Committee in a joint exhibition of art-inspired poetry. We will be featuring several of the artworks, and their accompanying poems, during the rest of April. All the works are on display in The Commons Cafe.

Deeper
by Jennifer Jones

inspired by Elizabeth Naro’s First Impression, oil on canvas

What do you see
Looking at me
When I smile and laugh
And tell you it’s my first date?

What do you see
Looking at me
When I hand you my resume
And tell you I’m good at this?

What do clothes
Tell you about me
When the truth lies
Deeper than my dress?

Yards of fabric
To cover the soul
To cover the lies
And you’re deceived

There is more to see
Beyond the colors
Of dyed threads
And rage of trends

If appearance
Is deception, then
Look at me again
And tell me what you see