Stefanie Bennett- A Poem

POLLSTERS, TAKE NOTE      

 

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 of pith and marrow,

He intones.

It’s ‘sucking eggs’

That makes

                  Men wise.

 

 

Stefanie Bennett has published over a dozen poetry books and has appeared in Dead Snakes, The Galway Review, The Lake, The Camel Saloon, Shot Glass Journal and others. Of mixed ancestry [Italian/Irish/Paugussett-Shawnee] she was born in Queensland, Australia in 1945. Her latest poetry collection ‘The Vanishing’ is published by Walleah Press July 2015