{"id":2829,"date":"2014-07-20T19:45:39","date_gmt":"2014-07-20T19:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/?p=2829"},"modified":"2014-07-20T19:45:39","modified_gmt":"2014-07-20T19:45:39","slug":"orange-a-poem-by-belinda-rimmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/orange-a-poem-by-belinda-rimmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Orange. A Poem by Belinda Rimmer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An orange
\nsits on top of a tossing sea of apples –
\n 
\noutcast.
\n 
\nShe’s a grumpy grandmother,
\naproned in dimpled buckskin.
\n 
\nA depressed old lady.
\n 
\nHer navel
\nis a brittle button
\nin a sagging buttonhole.
\n 
\nShe waits to be lifted
\nin hammock hands
\nand placed like a queen
\non a spotless plate.
\n 
\nThen an elegant set of fingers
\ncould peel her,
\ndissect her,
\nenter the jagged segments
\nof her heart.
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I was born in Wiltshire in 1959. My father was a builder and my mother a housewife. I attended one of the first comprehensive schools and loved school life. However, my ambition to be a journalist was viewed by the school as not being a suitable occupation for a woman! It took me a while to decide upon psychiatric nursing as an alternative career. I worked for many years in mental health, mostly with adolescents and their families.
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\nAfter having my children, I enrolled at the local university. As I\u2019d always danced and written poetry, I became increasingly interested in performance arts as a subject which allowed me to use both disciplines. After completing an MA in Fine and Media arts, I worked in a variety of creative roles: lecturer, dance development officer, and dance and drama practitioner for schools.
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\nI\u2019ve had poems published in a number of journals (I\u2019m hampered by a tendency to keep my work hidden inside a box).
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\nOver the last few years, I have been writing stories for children. This gives me hours of pleasure, but not a wage.<\/strong>
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