Penelope Moffet
Penelope Moffet lives in Los Angeles but keeps wondering if she should move somewhere less citified. She is the author of three chapbooks, Cauldron of Hisses (Arroyo Seco Press, 2022), It Isn’t That They Mean to Kill You (Arroyo Seco Press, 2018) and Keeping Still (Dorland Mountain Arts, 1995). Her poems have been published in many journals, among them One, ONE ART, Natural Bridge, Verse-Virtual, The Rise Up Review, The Ekphrastic Review and Sheila-Na-Gig. She has worked as a freelance journalist, a publicist for non-profits, an editor and a legal secretary.
What Lakes Do
Sooner or later
you must make
a decision,
even if the decision
is to make
no decision,
just keep swimming
like that coot
paddling by,
head bobbing,
the wake it leaves
a narrow v
that widens into
corrugated ripples
blending into
no-bird ripples,
the lake doing
what lakes do.
