Friday, April 17, 2015

Stefanie Bennett- Three Poems


 
THE WONDER     
 
If it’s cost effective
Call a cab;
Your mother
                  If she’s willing;
The Devil’s broomstick
                  Double-parked.
 
Street sweepers,
Zoo keepers,
Septuagenarians
                          And
Trigger-happy humanists.
 
In this rag and bone autumnal
Suburb
          - Deliverance
Is up for grabs.
Please, no
Scuttle-butting –:
 
Consigned, the Avatar
May not
Last long...
 
 
 
THE SEARCH    
 
Try to turn that thought
Around –,
 
The art
Of waiting for
 
The Rain-Tree
To flower –,
 
The front porch
Rocker to
 
Move of its own
Accord
 
And you –, God
Willing,
 
Still in it –.
 
 
 
SCARS    
 
They broke the rhyme
When they made him.
Slit rhetoric length-ways.
 
He could have been
A jetsam mine buoying
                        Both sea
                        And shore,
Or a bee-keeping landlubber.
 
He could have taken killing
More seriously, praised
Basho, thumbed up
                        A purple heart.
 
He could have painted deft
Sunsets leading off
To a promised Calvinism...
 
Succinctly, he almost did!
Hybridised as
Mouse and man:
 
Migrated –, a giant
Among
The filaments.
 
 
 
Stefanie Bennett has published several volumes of poetry and had poems appear with
Mad Swirl, The Camel Saloon, Illya’s Honey, Record-Magazine, Shot Glass Journal and
others. 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 North Queensland,
Australia, in 1945.
 
 

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