Monday, December 29, 2014

Stefanie Bennett- Three Poems


LANDSCAPE ORIENTATION     
 
On the day the sun cried
An epicurean
Semiquaver hung
Above
The good red earth,
The cornflower-blue
Horizon,
The jasmine’s diminutive
Austerity, and
The vanished
Coming[s] and going[s]
Of providence...
 
Words, overheard, as
A crop of
Ashes fell –, tell
‘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?
 
 
 
AFFAIRS and BALANCE   
 
In a dim lit cabin the aged Sachem sits crafting
Another finely beaded belt that
Will tell coloured histories of the salmon run,
Moose, and coyote trilogy.
Wisdom’s deft fingers
Flex to rearrange a knot
... Here ... There.
 
Prized by collectors, his Wampum
Carries a mission prayer.
Simply annotated,
There’s the need for
 
            Buying
            The
            Place
            Back.
 
 
 
MOON-PIE SURVIVAL   
 
I keep my own company
And it’s
Kept very well –,
Breezy and
Buzz-
Boxed on
Distant fields:
 
... Somehow by-
Passing
The Janus-Faced
Deal of
An eye
For a patch
Of another’s –:
 
No. Never
Here –.
 
It’s the company
I keep –,
The oxymora
Corn-puffs,
And the relish
That makes
The difference.
 
 
 
Stefanie Bennett has published eighteen books of poetry and one novel. She has acted as a
publishing editor and worked with Arts Action for Peace. Of mixed ancestry [Italian/Irish/Paugussett-Shawnee], she was born in Queensland, Australia, in 1945. Her latest poetry title ‘The Vanishing’ is due at year’s end. Publisher; Walleah Press.

 
 

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