In my Mother’s House
A deceptive land,
An impulse
Waxes lyric...
While un-encumbered
The axe-head
And wood-block lie –
seen
Only from
The bi-fold window.
There, time steps
through
The filaments’
Grasping squall, and
It’s found
How I am – now, twice
As able
As once
Was Cain.
THE TREPIDATION
ACT
Renegade neutrons
Fall apart
Laughing
On the front lawn,
yet
You, with
Your cold
Aerial-of-souls’
Clip-board
Hand them
A clean
Bill
Of health. Seems
Strange how
A ‘for real’
Shooting star’s
Never around
When
You want one.
STEAM AND
GOSPELS
So much to answer
for.
No-one to answer to.
Maybe add
An arthropod
With intent
And put a lid
On it.
Stefanie Bennett,
ex-blues singer & musician has published several books of
poetry, a novel, & a libretto & works with No Nukes, Arts Action
For Peace as well as Equality. Of mixed ancestry
[Italian/Irish/Paugussett-Shawnee], she was born in Queensland,
Australia.