Two Poems by Stefanie Bennett

Myrrh and Misdemeanor

Outside the roadside chapel
The gaggle
Of constellations
In the lap
Of the chair
With three bowed legs
Is a hard-wired
On-the-money
Talking point for

The intrepid
Holy Ghost.

The wonky
Bi-focals.

The snowed upon
Newspapers

. . . And all.



Sharps -- Literalized

I call it my work!  Shelve your damnable
Generic compromise--
The shrinking metathesis
That morphs
The L.c.d.'s  *
WhatsAByte
Inauguration . . .

If there was a picket line
In think
I'd join it --

Wearing the boots of
A fisherwoman
I'd swear

The disposition of man
Is a god-fraught
                                     Killing maching
Aimed at
Machu Picchu.

I call it . . . my work.
This
          Aftershock.
This pale
Horse
Passing.



* lowest common denominator

Stefanie Bennett has published eighteen books of poetry and one novel.  Of mixed ancestry (Italian, Irish, Paugussett-Shawnee) she was born in Townsville, Queensland, Australia in 1945.  Stefanie's latest poetry title 'The Vanishing' is due at year's end.  Publisher, Walleah Press.