Bruce Bennett – String Poet

If only I could make you speak
across the years that now divide
us from those others, side by side,
who sought what helpless lovers seek;

If somehow I could make you hear
their dialogue that still goes on,
though one of them is long since gone,
and nothing makes her reappear;

If I could make you see, and care,
that they are helpless, hopeless still,
and still must wander lost until
unlikely rescue finds them there;

Perhaps then you could help me know
how I at last might grant them peace
as well as find my own release
from those lost lovers long ago.

One thought on “Bruce Bennett”

Jonathan Greenfield says:

2013/04/04 at 4:58 PM

It is a rare pleasure to find such allure in such a blatantly sad verse.

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Bruce Bennett is the author of nine poetry books and more than twenty poetry chapbooks. His most recent books are Subway Figure (Orchises Press, 2009) and Something Like Karma (Clandestine Press, 2009). Recent chapbooks include a sonnet sequence, A Girl Like You (Finishing Line, 2011), and a letterpress collection of rhymed fables, The Bestial Floor (Wells College Press, 2011). Poems of his have recently appeared in Ploughshares, 5 AM, Tar River Poetry, Measure, Fifth Wednesday Journal, and Light.