Stefanie Bennett- A Poem

Stefanie Bennett has published several volumes of poetry and worked with Arts Action for Peace. Her poems appear in High Coupe, Mad Swirl, Shot Glass Journal, Ink, Sweat & Tears, Dead Snakes, The Provo Canyon Review and others. Of mixed ancestry [Italian/Irish/Paugussett-Shawnee] she was born in Queensland, Australia. Stefanie’s latest poetry title (2015) “The Vanishing” was published by Walleah Press and is available from Walleah, Amazon, Fishpond Books etc.

 

 

 

VORTICISM        

 

It is only a mad bull bellowing

At the ‘city gate’. As

Consistent as Spring -

The visitation has

Doubled the tourist trade.

 

What to make of it... this

Mad bull? And

Why does he

Choose

The City Gate?

 

Perhaps it is a forewarning

Of bastardry to come – or

A lament

Of those

Now passed...

 

The hair stands up along

My spine. Sonorously

His hooves thump out

The rhythm:

 

       Yes! No!

       Yes! No!