ice dam removal
are there anymore stolen afternoons on lovely boardwalks tête-à-tête turning into bloody baywalks without warning signs of stalkers on stilts rounding up slaughtered whales and slaughtered pirates everyday people are running the bridges conning the Milarepa version on lacquered roads subsiding the skyline and every cul-de-sac with aggressive tendencies while fake tv crews decimating your beliefs in simple extremities
rowing the temporal
as if a hundred years ago and still indigenous simplicity is free from longing we dive underwater by subway from Pest to Buda we rest in the blinds of reeds on the shore an osprey orbits overhead speaking with his wings a grass snake glides under our feet into the sedge invisible frogs watching us dragonflies zip past we don’t yearn for anything in the meantime permutations of beauty sway in the breeze no command no pushing no boasting our eyes won’t blink at any material expertise
hidden joy
an unstrained person
chopping wood after wood to pieces
in the swirling heat wave
shared by a shrinking sun dialing for the moon
to talk her into swapping
the day for night
wanting to set by gliding down a lake
next to the riparian marsh
among white warblers, ospreys
where the mantis is scarce grievously for the gliding
leaf frogs
he who is incarcerated under a luminescent circle
closed to a sublime coastline
to cheer up the elusive wood chopper
he who is building a raft at the behest
of a swashbuckling superior
he hates
so, he’ll hide a leak he secretly bilged
for everyone’s pleasure
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Gabor Gyukicsic…
…is an author of 11 books of poetry, 1 book of prose and 19 books of translations including A Transparent Lion, selected poetry of Attila József published by Green Integer, an anthology of North American Indigenous poets in Hungarian published in 2015 and a Contemporary Hungarian Poetry Anthology titled They’ll be Good for Seed published by White Pine Press.
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