Stefanie Bennett- Three Poems

 

BLANKS ‘from the other world’ for Duda    

 

Suppose the sassafras spreads its leafage

As far as the far-off ‘danger man’

Nodding at symbolic warheads –,

 

Suppose the dispirited mountain woodchuck

Turns her back

On the Wojak land of legend –,

 

And suppose the fortune-telling chickadee

Refuses to whistle

“Abide With Me”

 

... The cryptic tempest flower

Wouldn’t bear too well,

No sir!

 

 

[Duda =Grandmother]

 

 

 

HARD-COPY DEPARTMENT  

 

What must word-play

Do with

The object

That doesn’t exist!

 

Revisit the flaw

Through

             ‘The looking-

Glass war’

 

Says Alice...

 

 

 

SITUATION – ‘DELICATE’ 

 

Just like Nasa’s Mariner – and

Any other

Escape artist,

I mull over

The maze of words,

Pictographs inscribed

On the eyelids

Of White Thunder

And pockets

                   Of rain

The Dust Devil

Dare

Not open...

                 While

 

In the Canyon de Chelly –,

In the sackcloth of silence –,

In the contracting talons

Of Mercury’s

Dark Star

Shadow-boxing

‘The Tempest’,

Our

Minders’ Keepers

Run

True-to-form;

Each way:

... That-a-way.

 

 

 

Stefanie Bennett has published several volumes of poetry and had poems appear with

Mad Swirl, The Camel Saloon, Illya’s Honey, Jelly-fish Whispers, Shot Glass Journal,

Boston Poetry Magazine 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.