Miklós Borsik

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…
Anna Vados

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…
André Ferenc

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

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…
Natalia Karjalainen

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

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…
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