Untitled - Azam Abidov - poet and translator

ZOFIA BESZCZYŃSKA
Zofia Beszczyńska is a poet, author of fantasy tales for
adults and children, translator from French and Spanish and
book reviewer working for literary magazines. Member of
Association of Polish Writers and Polish IBBY Section. Scholar
of Children’s Library in Munich, Germany (1996) and Baltic
Centre for Writers and Translators in Visby, Sweden (2003).
She took part in poetry festivals in Sarayevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
(1998), Struga, Macedonia (2002, 2003), Havana, Cuba (2007), Calicut,
India (2007), Granada (Nicaragua, 2009), and Paris (France, 2009).
Her most important poetry collections are: Window in a Tree (1992),
Tea Cat (1999), Language of Birds (2001), Magic Places (2003),
Island of Lights (2004), Helter-Skelter Down the Hill (2005), Strange
Land (2007), Witch House (2010), Los sitios mágicos
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I saw something I should not have seen
a bird falling head down
a white faced woman
blood spurting out of the artery
I turned into an animal
a dance round the fire:
I am excluded
stones in the water:
I cross over lightly
to the other side
every time he leaves
a trace behind him: a stone
or a bone or a feather; a smell.
Is he a fish or
a bird? or rain? or a wave? Someone dead
maybe. This smell is a scent
of a soul. It stays when you are in love and next
disappears.
Love might die
then. But always
some feathers are left
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