I will leave for Vanino to
brush my soul with a feather
a sparrow’s feather
to brush my soul with
I will leave by train
I will leave by daylight
early-in-the-morning-night
leave for Vanino slipshod
I will leave by train
I will leave as if dead
 
by the rain of the seventh month
I will leave by train
to brush my soul with a feather
my soul with a feather in Vanino

Tatiana Zima is a poet and kulturträger or "culture promoter". Born in 1968 in the port of Vanino, she currently lives in Vladivostok, a city in the Russian Far East. She has been extensively published by local and national literary magazines, and is the author of the award winning book Brackets (2004). She is also a publisher of the Vladivostok alternative poetry collection Fishes and Birds (2006).