Stefanie Bennett- A Poem

Stefanie Bennett’s poems appear in Dead Snakes, Haggard & Halloo, Agent Orange ‘poems

to empower all Agent Orange victims’, Communion, Snorkel, The Fib Review & others. Of

mixed ancestry [Irish/Italian/Paugussett-Shawnee] she was born in Qld., Australia in 1945.

Stefanie’s latest poetry title ‘The Vanishing’ [2015] is published by Walleah Press & available

from Walleah Press, Amazon & Fishpond Books.

 

 

 

THE SOFT DOMESTIC ECONOMY    

 

Via the vending maelstrom

Machine

I get a blighted

Portfolio poultice –,

An art-deco

Electric toothbrush –,

Three cut-out

Culinary

Square meals –,

A jump-to-it

           ‘Confederacy

Of confidence’

           Madrigal

Where nothing

Is as it

           Seems –, and

The usual

Acidic glare

From

My bed-sit

Night nurse

Who has

 

Madam Blavatsky’s

... Eyes.

 

 

[First published in Boston

Poetry Magazine]