The Friday poem – Voznesensky, by Sam Hunt
29 Jan 2016
Culture
Poetry for the soul
Voznesensky
Voznesensky
meeting his girlfriend in the rain
is taking place tonight.
There’s the same
telephone box, late fifties,
Voznesensky & girlfriend
rooting like rattlesnakes.
The whole world is shaking.
Voznesensky himself is
shaking.
It must be love, he thought.
Or a bad night.
Or good news
breaking.
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Sam Hunt
Sam Hunt remains the most outstanding lyric writer in New Zealand verse. His first book of poems From Bottle Creek was published in 1969; his most recent book Salt River Songs was published in 2016. Sam was born in Castor Bay in 1946.
