Landscape for Posterity by Fabrice Poussin

What will those scientists think
in a thousand years when they come to
the buried grounds of northern Texas.

They once found dinosaurs
arrowheads, sacred grounds and
great artifacts in those lands.


The great sequoia and giant redwoods
today dwarfed by the unlikely metal
to save a green earth with steel wings.


What will future archaeologists say
when they discover the ruins of
electric powerhouses and rusted cans?


What an odd excavated land they will see
in the same delight that was once Darwin’s,
at the food of ancient wind turbines.

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Poussin is a professor of French and World Literature. His work in poetry and photography has appeared in Kestrel, Symposium, The Chimes, and hundreds of other publications worldwide. Most recently, his collections In Absentia, and If I Had a Gun, Half Past Life were published in 2021, 2022, and 2023 by Silver Bow Publishing.