Quixotic
- Quixotic
Plymouth, NH
We shrieked Eyesore!, blew raspberries, chagrinedwhen Groton's turbines loomed on the horizonin the most literal sense. No charming windmillsof the Old Dutch waffle-wingèd kind,these power generators, gray-shark-finned,are starkly functional as streptomycinand rawboned as a weasel that's been skinned.They crimp the mountain range whose shade we rise in
each sunup, snarl its formerly streamlinedshape into one that there's no recognizing.Their sharp Inquisitorial blades remindus we're the sinning scions of folks who sinnedin their own times. We're told these shineless tinedmachines are meant to save us from a poisonwe fed ourselves, deluged our unrefinedintestines with. What starchy moralizing. [End Page 182]
Jenna Le is the author of Six Rivers (NYQ Bools, 2011) and A History of the Cetacean American Diaspora (Indolent Books 2018). She was selected by Marylin Nelson as winner of Poetry By The Sea's inaugural sonnet competition in 2019. She has recent poems in AGNI, Poet Lore, and West Branch. She can be found at Jennalewriting.com.
