Thursday, February 26, 2015

Spoils

Those who know when old
Is new again
Are the bareback riders
Before
The Age of Quartz –,
Who speak ‘if’
Spoken to –,
Yet curse
A purple sage – and
The future
Without
A face.


By Stefanie Bennett

1 comment:

The Bijou Poetry Review said...

Stefanie Bennett has published several books of poetry and a novel – and has had
poems published by Boston Poetry Magazine, Dead Snakes, Bijou Poetry Review,
VerseWrights, Carcinogenic Poetry and others. Of mixed ancestry [Italian/Irish/
Paugussett-Shawnee], she was born in Townsville, Queensland, Australia in
1945.

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