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

neither the brown moss on the tiles, nor the trace of a nest under the eave, nor the strict perimeters of the private rose beds, nor the long brown scar at the tip of the Sansevieria leaf can be seen from above over there, nor an ant, whether alive or dead, nor the stain on the carpet on the other hand

the small beans grown from plastic cream cups along the wall here cannot see through their pods either, and why should they look, in truth, at the ochre striped male pyjamas over there in the stone-framed window of the tower room.

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