Israel appropriated a swath of 990 acres in the West Bank on Sunday and declared the Palestinian area south of Bethlehem to be Israeli "state lands," local media reported. --LA Times, August 31, 2014 (Image source: Peace Now) |
In 'My Mother's House'
A deceptive land,
An impulse
Waxes lyric -,
While unencumbered
The axe-head
And wood-block lie
... Seen only
From
The bi-fold window.
There, time steps through
The filament's
Grasping squall, and
It's found
How I am, now -,
Twice as able
As once was
Cain...
Stefanie Bennett has published 18 books of poetry and 1 novel. Of mixed ancestry [Italian/Irish/Paugussett-Shawnee] she was born in Townsville, Queensland, Australia 1945. Stefanie's latest poetry title The Vanishing is due late this year from Walleah Press.