Stefanie Bennett- Two Poems

FREEZE: The Coalition of the Un-willing, Mariupol   

 

Around the bend they came,

Past the broken ground.

The know-it-alls

Who cannot recognize

Goose-flesh from

(Pardon me)

A horse’s arse

Viewed

            From

One step “back

To the future’s”

Sure footed

Titanium heart.

 

 

TIPSTER      

 

On nights of the full moon

I batten

Down the hatch

For who knows what city-slickers,

Layabouts and deceivers

Will tally up to.

 

All and sundry’s fumigated,

Especially

The wicker chair

Belching

              Collywobbles

And covered

In hoar frost

 

- The lair where an

Enthused

Meteor squats and

Resumes

His Promethean shock-

Jock tale

 

... Of devil’s dust

Gone loco.

 

Beware the pith

And marrow,

- He intones.

                    It’s 

Sucking eggs

That makes

Men wise...

 

 

 

Stefanie Bennett has published several books of poetry, a novel and a libretto. Her poetry

has been published by The Camel Saloon, The Mindless Muse, Aleola Journal, The Provo

Canyon Review, Communion, IS&T, Record-Magazine and others. Of mixed ancestry

[Italian/Irish/Paugussett-Shawnee] she was born in Queensland, Australia, in 1945.