Journal Entry--By Stefanie Bennett--Australia

Journal Entry      

  

It’s no illusion:

That Pavarotti

Finch

       Whistles

While she works

       Beside

An ochre

And red

Backdrop

        One shy

Octave

At a time.

Stefanie Bennett, ex-blues singer & musician, has published several

books of poetry, a novel & a libretto, & worked with Arts Action For Peace.

Of mixed ancestry [Irish/Italian/Paugussett-Shawnee] she has tutored at

The Institute of Modern Languages – Cook University. Stefanie was born

in Queensland, Australia in 1945.