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Itinerant Singer ‘Two’<\/strong><\/p>\n Four walls contain acquaintances: Here, in plenitude, abides the astringent Outside, each morning,\u00a0 a mottled sparrow Is broken.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Stefanie Bennett<\/strong> 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,\u00a0 The Vanishing<\/em> is due at year’s end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8047"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8049,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8047\/revisions\/8049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTable and chairs
\n– Immensely relevant.
\nAs well, the wine cup,
\nThe ticking clock, and
\nNeatly folded paper-money
\nTo nurse me through
\nAn oncoming second life.<\/p>\n
\nLight of Eastern Nigredo.
\nPerhaps the copper
\nFire-grate
\nWill become an emerald
\nThe size of
\nThat September moon
\nUpending treasure’s residue!<\/p>\n
\nArchaically laments
\nTo a sky-full
\nOf flowers…
\nI must ask
\nThe Ornithologist why
\nIt appears
\nThe voice<\/p>\n