Stefanie Bennett - Three Poems

ROSA ALBA & THE VOLATILE PRINCIPLE: Meditation For

The ‘Second Coming’                        

Look! The most brazen

Of skies where an outlined

Bilateral head

Twists off

Its thunder.

Prophetically

Outraged it

Encounters

The era of

Hades benefactors

Adorned in mock

Virtual-reality.

Aeons exclusively past

Should have taught

Of the spirited

Buckle legend –,

The gateway;

The two circles

Intersecting.

Now, the aged order’s

Misfired,

And talismen

Invert

Our rune-spread.

Record how a collage

Of barbed crowns

Howl through

Harbouring

Daylight – misdiagnosed

As plexiformed

Geophysics.

Heat-fluxed

Astrologers

Foolishly

Ascribe

The ‘Ides of March’.

Amphibious vetoings

And power’s

Obsession

Uproot the lotus;

Sirus dog-days

Stall before

The fall

Of this

Stellar beacon.

Set darkness

Has become

The lone hieroglyph...

Indeed, the tide’s

A forlorn mistress -

Ever searing

Out her Red King’s

Stone tabular.

She enacts

Isis by way

Of Mercury’s

Trap-door, while

The planet

Rotates –, dizzily,

On the lost

Emerald wings of

The tantra –, Taurus.

[First published in Footwork:

Paterson Literary Review 92]

THE PRIZE        

 

It’s when the sea

Enters the sky

And the horizon

Swings

On a rusty nail

Above the bedhead

That I’ll remember

Arcadia

 

... Not for

Its monogamous

Aesthetics or

The solicitude

Billboard

Impressionists

Address

 

But love’s half

Whispering

Writ

- “In perpetuity

We trust...”

In a hand

I’m un-

Familiar with.

 

 

 

SLIDE-EFFECTS   

 

... I hang my hat where

The oxygen’s lean

And cows

Come home

In single file.

Where nothing’s out

To prove

A thing

But the believing

That’s behind

 

The green gate.

 

 

 

Stefanie Bennett has published several poetry books and a novel. Her work is with Boston Poetry Magazine, Bijou Poetry Review, VerseWrights, Carcinogenic Poetry and others. Of mixed ancestry [Italian/Irish/Paugussett-Shawnee], she was born in Queensland, Australia, in 1945.