OLGA PAVLINOVA

FR10

Nov 1994

Walleah Press

Currajah

Famous Reporter

 

 

Birdsong

 

In the night

a strange bird

straight out of poetry and old songs

alights on the electricity pole

and makes the doleful sound

of those who have been

wronged in love.

Partnerless

the bird in on the lookout

for its mate,

the gate shifts in the wind

and makes a sound

like groaning

but still the bird is lonely

on the pole.

Whole arias

move along the wind

and reach my window

tremulous and sad

I stay awake

and wish the bird

the kind of glad reunion

straight out of poetry and old songs.

 

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Olga Pavlinova is a Melbourne writer whose poems and stories have been published in various Australian literary magazines.