Stefanie Bennett- Two Poems

LEAVING HAVASU, ARIZONA   

If the sky had a voice

I envisage

We’d buckle under

The bent over

Exit wounds

Just as

The willow

Does

In bright water.


Published in Boston Poetry Magazine 2/12/14

RITES, THE Mojave: (In Memory of Flight MH17)

When all else failed

The great heart

Of the Joshua Tree

Became

A Tipi ‘fire-build’

In the desert’s

Empty

Arena –.

It was a signal.

It is the signal.

Published in Boston Poetry Magazine 2/12/14

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.