SHAFT; Climate Change Summit--By Stefanie Bennett--Australia

SHAFT; Climate Change Summit     

... In my cupped hands

A vestige of gum leaves:

Home to the troubadour cicada

Who droned

Through page-dark

December’s atlas – where

Summer was no more, shorn

By the cold kiln

Of primal decline

And once-upon-a-time’s

Circumspect, yet

Human, opulence...

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.