Poetry

Jessica Lucia photo

By

Stefanie Bennett

Centering… Hate Speech

Bridge – there is

A bridge.

The construction company

Of the mad is

Working on

Such a bridge

As only human

Hearts can

Build with their bright

Eye-sockets rotating

Inward and out.

If completed, this bridge will

Bridge all oceanic walls.

Founded on heart-beats

It cannot fail.

The nails

In turn

Already hum

Tomorrow’s

Victory.

COP23 Climate Change Summit – Bonn

I once had… a mood.

A clue

With

A view…

Took a plastic axe and went

Looking for some friends

Who’d tell me where to find

A tree in need of defending.

Took my head to a doctor and

Asked him of the joke… why

Temperatures aren’t catching

Once you fly the sigh bilateral.

Took the last tram to La Mancha:

I had something to confess

Like love’s super-naturalness

Not found at this address…

And all the way

On down

The tin-woman

Kept on

Stefanie Bennett

Stefanie Bennett, ex-blues singer and musician, has published several books of poetry, a novel and a libretto and worked with Arts Action For Peace. Of mixed ancestry [Irish/Italian/Paugussett-Shawnee] she was born in Queensland, Australia in 1945.