Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Stefanie Bennett- Two Poems


THRIFT         
 
Anne Marie, let’s pretend
The years haven’t
Bridged
The steps untaken,
The calendar
Turned
Without one twinge
Of pitying...
 
If memory serves truly,
We played
Blind-man’s-buff in that
Very same refuge
 
There –, beside the wood
- Pile, where white
Rosemary
               Dazzled
The bronze hill and
The grave wept
Shy atonement.
 
Anne Marie, the Matriarch
Died three
Decades ago. Only
Providence
Knows why. Let’s
Say our farewells...
 
Mothers depart
Because
Daughters don’t.
 
 
 
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 2   
 
My grandson learned
To carry
The moon
On the handlebars
Of his
Three-wheeler.
 
It was about then
The barber
Stopped shaving
Doubting
Thomases.
 
 
 
Stefanie Bennett has published several volumes of poetry and had poems appear with The Lake, Dead Snakes, Plum Tree Tavern, Message in a Bottle and others.  Of mixed ancestry [Irish/Italian/Paugussett-Shawnee] she was born in Australia in 1945. Stefanie’s latest poetry book ‘The Vanishing’ is published by Walleah Press and also available from Fishpond.com.au
 
 
 

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