Stefanie Bennett- A Poem

Stefanie Bennett has published several volumes of poetry, a libretto, and a novel – and

her poems appear with The Provo Canyon Review, High Coupe, Illya’s Honey, Snow

Monkey, Shot Glass Journal, Mad Swirl, Carcinogenic Poetry, and others. Of mixed

ancestry [Irish/Italian/Paugussett-Shawnee] she was born in Queensland, Australia.

Stefanie’s latest poetry title is “The Vanishing” published by Walleah Press 2015

 

 

 

NADEZHDA MANDELSTAM: REMEMBERING OSIP 

 

Wild fruits fall once again

And time passes its orcharding.

Leaves, their shapes like hieroglyphs,

Make little of the future.

 

Where is the Golden Child; the one

Who inherited my uppermost branches?

Who swayed and sang

As only innocence can?

 

Perhaps he’s grown past recall.

Past the old vibrancy

Of a lover’s gaze. Stepped out; over

Grief’s cleft and into another...

 

Utterances from a distant star.

They’re shooting hearts

Into the frost of space!

It’s no more than a rumour:

 

Something to

                     Taunt emotion...

Lead it away

         From the self without self...

 

A horizontal shriek and gash

Streak across

This horizon!

It is not my kin... it is

 

Not my valuable. He lies

Beneath the pressed foliage.

The brown earth.

The departing seasons.