Thursday, October 23, 2014

THE LOOP: OTTAWA

by Stefanie Bennett


Image source: CBC



The situation is not customary -    Still, allow just one
Frame-frozen
Soulful note into
The spectrum
Of an abbreviated
Insurgency where
Algebra's
              Misfired
And the atypical
Self

Rides shotgun.


Stefanie Bennett has published several books of poetry, tutored in The Institute of Modern Languages at James Cook University and worked with Arts Action for Peace. Of mixed ancestry [Italian/Irish/Paugussett-Shawnee] she was born in Townsville, Queensland, Australia in 1945. Her latest poetry title The Vanishing is due at year's end fromWalleah Press.