Itinerant Singer ‘Two’
Four walls contain acquaintances:
Table and chairs
– Immensely relevant.
As well, the wine cup,
The ticking clock, and
Neatly folded paper-money
To nurse me through
An oncoming second life.
Here, in plenitude, abides the astringent
Light of Eastern Nigredo.
Perhaps the copper
Fire-grate
Will become an emerald
The size of
That September moon
Upending treasure’s residue!
Outside, each morning, a mottled sparrow
Archaically laments
To a sky-full
Of flowers…
I must ask
The Ornithologist why
It appears
The voice
Is broken.
Stefanie Bennett has published eighteen books of poetry and poems online. Of mixed ancestry [Italian/Irish/Paugussett-Shawnee] she was born in Townsville, Qld., Australia in 1945. Her latest poetry title, The Vanishing is due at year’s end.