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...