IMPETUOUS COUSIN by Stefanie Bennett

for Kenneth 1996   

Naturally his leaving grieves me.
The .38 calibre colt
still pinioned to the left hand
trigger finger on the outskirts
of Connecticut’s heart-
land is a sombre warning:
 
Never preach tribal Sovereignty
in the first
            instance.
In the past
          tense...

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Stefanie Bennett has published several volumes of poetry & is of mixed 
ancestry – Italian/Irish/Paugussett-Shawnee. Her latest poetry collection
“The Vanishing” is available from Walleah Press   suneagle@bigpond.com 

To view more from this author pick up a copy of the Spring/Summer 2018 issue of The Stray Branch.