2 Poems by Stefanie Bennett

THE SPOILS

Those who know when old
Is new again are
The ‘Bareback Riders’
Before
The Age of Quartz.
Who speak ‘if’ spoken
To, yet curse
A purple sage, and
The future
Without
The future’s face... 

SLIDE EFFECTS

... I hang my hat where
The oxygen’s lean
And cows
Come home
In single file.
Where nothing’s
Out to prove
A thing – but
The believing
That’s
Behind
The green gate –. 

Bionote 

Stefanie Bennett has published 18 books of poetry, a Libretto & a novel & has poems appearing in The Provo Canyon Review, The Mind[less] Muse, Shot Glass Journal, The Fib Review, Dead Snakes, The Galway Review & others. She has acted as a publishing editor, tutored in The Institute of Modern Languages at James Cook University & worked with Arts Action for Peace. Of mixed ancestry [Italian/Irish/Paugussett- Shawnee] she was born in Qld., Australia in 1945. Stefanie’s also been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her latest poetry book “The Vanishing” is published by Walleah Press (2015) & is available from Walleah Press, Amazon & Fishpond.