TWO POEMS

ROSALIE MOFFETT

This Landscape It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.”—Simone Weil Midwest landscape with its leftoverWWII factory aesthetic. Churchafter church and a Krispy Krunchy Chickencum gas station on the corner. Border between the setting and the self blearing, hot highwayshimmying into sky. Better to let each featureof scenery speak for itself, best to let the litter restagainst the fence: empty vienna sausage tin,mega millions scratcher with its eyes scratched out. When the scale is nothing(0) to the worst pain you can imagine (10), the scaledepends on my power of imagination. The Pea Shoots with Their Thin Tendrils grope stupidly for the solace some seek in churchor nature, stable rung to lay their weightand lift themselves towards light, the highest heightat the top of the trellis to set their white…

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The American Poetry Review (Digital) - 1 Issue, September/October 2023

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