Bio
Stefanie Bennett has published several books of poetry, a libretto, and a novel. Of mixed ancestry [Italian/Irish/Paugussett-Shawnee] she was born in Townsville, Qld., Australia. Stefanie's latest poetry title 'The Vanishing' is available from the publisher, Walleah Press, and Amazon.
Stefanie Bennett
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Just as light dips its corona
My lodger – an echidna
By any other name –
Zigzags the curved terrace
To forage her banquet
... Leaving furrows
Between iris and sage.
Sighted, our eyes interlock.
I blink. Make hexagrams
From antiquated toil:
Shout
... Eureka!
The Buddha's been
A long time coming.