Stefanie Bennett- Two Poems

Stefanie Bennett has published several books of poetry, a novel, & a libretto.

Her poems have appeared in Carcinogenic Poetry, VerseWrights, The Provo

Canyon Review, Shot Glass Journal, Plum Tree Tavern, High Coupe & others.

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

Australia. Stefanie’s latest poetry title ‘The Vanishing’ was published by

Walleah Press & is available from Walleah, Amazon & most bookshops.

 

 

 

I HEARD A WOMAN WEEPING      

 

I heard a woman weeping down

At the market place.

                                With emphasis:

 

I followed. I saw the woman weeping

Among the cabbages and spring-beans.

How relevant she is to history

 

I don’t know. She wore black [that much

I’ll record]: what’s more, when I left

They – the shoppers and stewards

 

Were stoning her with their eyes

At 8.42 a.m.  Easter Saturday with

An odd God and his mannerisms

                                    On their side...

 

 

 

TRICKSTER        

 

I would like to remind

My dissenters

That often

The wrong key

In a worn

Lock

Will bring

The house

 

... Down.