Wednesday, March 9, 2016

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!
 
 

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