Stefanie Bennett- Three Poems

LANDSCAPE ORIENTATION     

 

On the day the sun cried

An epicurean

Semiquaver hung

Above

The good red earth,

The cornflower-blue

Horizon,

The jasmine’s diminutive

Austerity, and

The vanished

Coming[s] and going[s]

Of providence...

 

Words, overheard, as

A crop of

Ashes fell –, tell

‘It’s the “bee’s knees”

Of B-grade movies

In toto with

VX re-routed

Drone

          Escapees’

Hijacked

              Hearts’.

 

Now –, did you... do you

From behind

Our cautionary

Catchment

See...

         What

It is I see?

 

 

 

AFFAIRS and BALANCE   

 

In a dim lit cabin the aged Sachem sits crafting

Another finely beaded belt that

Will tell coloured histories of the salmon run,

Moose, and coyote trilogy.

Wisdom’s deft fingers

Flex to rearrange a knot

... Here ... There.

 

Prized by collectors, his Wampum

Carries a mission prayer.

Simply annotated,

There’s the need for

 

            Buying

            The

            Place

            Back.

 

 

 

MOON-PIE SURVIVAL   

 

I keep my own company

And it’s

Kept very well –,

Breezy and

Buzz-

Boxed on

Distant fields:

 

... Somehow by-

Passing

The Janus-Faced

Deal of

An eye

For a patch

Of another’s –:

 

No. Never

Here –.

 

It’s the company

I keep –,

The oxymora

Corn-puffs,

And the relish

That makes

The difference.

 

 

 

Stefanie Bennett has published eighteen books of poetry and one novel. She has acted as a

publishing editor and worked with Arts Action for Peace. Of mixed ancestry [Italian/Irish/Paugussett-Shawnee], she was born in Queensland, Australia, in 1945. Her latest poetry title ‘The Vanishing’ is due at year’s end. Publisher; Walleah Press.