Evensong for Philip Levine
On leaving heaven
At road’s end,
And the light
Shut-off
Within
– The primary colours
Fell
Each step
Of the way
Just
Like the red-tailed
Hawk
Said…
‘Letting him down,
Easy.’
Stefanie Bennett has published several volumes of poetry, a libretto, and a novel. Over 40 years she has acted as a publishing editor and worked with Arts Action for Peace. Of mixed ancestry [Italian/Irish/Paugussett-Shawnee] she was born in Queensland, Australia, in 1945