Korniss Péter - Erdős Virág: Courtyards - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1993)

Surrounded by partition walls,

by soaked bare walls,

by daily widening chinks,

by clefts overgrown with ivy

by swaying corridors,

by shrieks of nail-scratched windowpanes.

by carrion flies humming on the china banks

of public waters flowing from public tanks,

by clothes-clip-sparrows sitting on wires

with tablecloths and flying sheets,

by wide-skirted barberries,

by luxuriant green fat thuyas,

by thin-leaved blond grass:

three tons of stone.

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