Vivienne Plumb lives in Wellington, New Zealand. Nefarious, her third poetry collection, has just been published by HeadworX. She also writes prose and drama, and has held the Hubert Church Prose Award (Best First Book of Fiction), the Bruce Mason Playwright Award, the Sargeson Fellowship and a University of Iowa writing residency in USA, 2004.

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Nefarious

When we drive up in the hired silver Hyundai there’s a single man parked by the river in a red Cortina. And Al says, maybe that’s the guy I met when I was fly fishing here the other day. And he checks his little black address book that is the size of one of those lilliputian copies of Shakespeare’s plays published by Tuttle’s Watchpocket Series. His name was Tony Bajowski, says Al. And Igoing all manner of places in the fastest possible time. The sun begins to set at one end of the river and a chill comes up off the cold hard earth. Al has walked so far he has become an unidentified lone angler in the distance. A little model figurine in an old museum diorama.