Monday, April 11, 2016

Stefanie Bennett- Two Poems


Stefanie Bennett has published several books of poetry & her poems appear
in Shot Glass Journal, The Provo Canyon Review, Dead Snakes, Ink, Sweat
& Tears, Pyrokinection & others. Of mixed ancestry [Italian/Irish/Paugussett-
Shawnee] she was born in Queensland, Australia. Stefanie’s latest poetry
title “The Vanishing” was published by Walleah Press & is available from
Walleah, Amazon & Fishpond Books.
 
 
 
REORIENTATION      
 
On the day the sun cried
An epicurean
Semiquaver hung
Above
The good red earth,
The cornflower-blue
Horizon,
The jasmin’s diminutive
Austerity and
The vanquished
Comings and goings
Of providence...
 
Words, overheard – as
A crop
Of ashes fell...
 
“It’s the Bee’s Knees
Of B-grade movies
In toto with
VX re-routed
Drone
        Escapees’
Hijacked
        Hearts.”
 
Now, did you... do you
From behind
Our cautionary
Catchment
                - See
What it is
                I see?
 
 
 
WHAT IT TAKES      
 
Back in the days
When ‘grief’
Was ‘good’
 
The dead-letter
Office
Was known
 
To rattle
Its
Chains...
 
 

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