aluness. n. 1. A name for the in-between phases of the moon. 2. A state lacking in stimulation, solitariness, a positively experienced sense of loneliness. 3. A fountain erected in the middle of the woods which suspends its babbling on sensing any movement at all. aortid …
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Miklós Borsik: Horses Don’t Write
The cut flowers stink of pizza when there’s mixed delivery, and the packaging of the COVID test recalls the garlicky cucumber salad, like how dreams and waking can get mixed up together. I waver, still half-asleep, should I mention Wolt1 by name in my…
József Keresztesi: Sentimental Journey
Let’s get going, the lights are harsh, over there, look, check out all those pics At the chemical plant crates of geraniums, deer in the rape fields, ears pricked In a sidecar a side of ham, garden gnomes in the mason’s yard, poplar trees …
ANNA VADOS: CHEERY SYRINGES
We stand in a narrow, grubby yard, circling slowly, facing each other, in my raised hand a syringe. That’s how it starts. I’m little. The one opposite is twice as tall, and though he’s skinny he’s a man. When it seems it’s all up, out…
Ferenc André: Anthropocene Prayer
I. You, who turn the Earth so it can learn the sun’s heat, you are acquainted with the stones’ grating song, you also rub dignity into the spine of the lolling, recumbent hills; You, who with careful hands, stir up the base of…
András Toroczkay: mugs
I haven’t got my own special mug, and even those I did once have, like that mess tin dad bought after mum died, which has turned up again from who knows where, they aren’t mine, they’ve all become Ildi’s as well. The same way I don’t own…
Ágota Katona : HOLDING IT UP WITH THEIR HANDS
By Greek time, poetry and falsehood are as old as each other. I yearn to touch something existing before and after me, on the shores of the Aegean or in my bloodflow, under seashells or in the shell of the ear. I succumb to the underwater waves.…
Natalia Karjalainen
Behind the corner, inside a house that looks like the bottom of a swimming pool, there is an attic where young communists go to kill time. Along the road to the house there is a hillside full of carnations and a sky full…
Kirsikka Vaahtera: The summer
I have twelve kittens sitting around me, howling newborns, slimy they color black and white pictures in their minds I like to think with my hands ten fingers ten toes twelve around me coloring the Truth dark green I…
Riikka Simpura
The sun throwsyour features on the sand. What is leftswims.








