Levertov’s Ladder
Leaving, she saw them eat
Her words –and
The left-over gravy
In that re-devised tumbled
Down shack
Where
The hawk-weed
Grows but doesn’t erase
The colour
Of absence –or
The stony telling
There by
A turnstile gate
As she, still with
Her smiling
Beauty on
Waved an even darker
Reverie
… Aside.
Stefanie Bennett has published several books of poetry, a libretto, & a novel… tutored at The Institute of Modern Languages & worked with Arts Action for Peace. Of mixed ancestry [Irish/Italian/Paugussett-Shawnee] she was born in Queensland, Australia. Her latest poetry title “The Vanishing” from Walleah Press is also available on Amazon & Fishpond