Untitled - Azam Abidov - poet and translator
Untitled - Azam Abidov - poet and translator
Untitled - Azam Abidov - poet and translator
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VIVIENNE PLUMB<br />
Vivienne Plumb is a New Zeal<strong>and</strong> <strong>poet</strong>, dramatist, <strong>and</strong> fiction<br />
writer presently living in Sydney, Australia while she completes a<br />
Doctorate of Creative Arts at the University of Wollongong.<br />
She was a founding member of the Women’s Play Press in 1992<br />
<strong>and</strong> has been the recipient of numerous fellowships <strong>and</strong> writing<br />
grants. Her poem, «The Tank,» won the 1998 NZ Poetry Society<br />
International Poetry Competition. Plumb’s recent works include<br />
two collections of <strong>poet</strong>ry, Salamanca (1998) <strong>and</strong> Avalanche (2000),<br />
a novella, The Diary as a Positive in Female Adult Behavior (2000),<br />
<strong>and</strong> a novel, Secret City (2003).<br />
Bird<br />
The attendant at the Plecnik<br />
exhibition stares at my skirt,<br />
then she runs her eyes like<br />
punched rivets into my body.<br />
I know I look the same,<br />
but different.<br />
They all watch me<br />
when I wash my h<strong>and</strong>s<br />
at the sink in the ladies’ toilets.<br />
What can I say?<br />
I am like a bird with no nest.<br />
And I need ten thous<strong>and</strong> eyes in my own head,<br />
as I know she overcharged me at the market.<br />
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