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