Ben Hession
Ben Hession is a disabled writer living on Dharawal country, south of Sydney, Australia. His poetry has been published in Eureka Street, the International Chinese Language Forum, the Cordite Poetry Review, Verity La, Bluepepper, Marrickville Pause, The Blue Nib, Live Encounters: Poetry and Writing, Antipodes and the Don Bank Live Poets anthology Can I Tell You A Secret? He has reviewed poetry for Verity La and Mascara Literary Review. Hession is a music journalist and is involved with community broadcasting.
Cemetery Visit
Sun-faded synthetic flowers adorning
the name plates – flourishes of petals, each
touching on personal, paled memories
of good works that had abounded
in life’s now abandoned field.
One day, their visitors will return, I guess,
to these living artifices of fidelity,
in hope – that plastic, resisting hope –
against our impermanence:
we’re seeing today, remaining in bloom.