Stefanie Bennett- A Poem

Stefanie Bennett is of mixed heritage [Italian/Irish/Paugussett-Shawnee].

Born in Townsville, Qld., Australia her latest poetry title was published by

Walleah Press (2015) and is available from Walleah, Amazon and Fish-

pond Books.

 

 

 

AFTER QUASIMODO’S ‘The Incomparable Earth’ & “The Brussels’

Attack” March 22nd, 2016                   

 

What breadth, Salvatore! Fugue of figure

And stanzas fisting through

Rubensonic utterings beyond

The travailing sun’s palette.

 

Deprivation’s exile: ‘Dialogue is more

Necessary than science.’ Well, that’s

No way to overthrow a known

False generation’s blundering...

 

On the decadence of language, brassed

To a tee, you tattooed out

“I modify the world!” This, appendixed  

To the false and true green.

 

In the land of the dead guitar your

Fingers of fire struck

                        The discord

Then grew into wounds

Of touch tender symposium.

 

Stylized now as the most noble of tramps

And Milan’s bread winner,

What siren crosses Sicily’s Bosphorus?

Marooned islander played down

 

So long, you reach once more for the boy

Whose youth was a flowering

                         Wreath – likened only

To the Byzantine Madonna’s

Phosphorus hair...