Korniss Péter - Erdős Virág: Courtyards - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1993)
smell of lecho a patch of sky love’s echoing noises the concierge’s servile pride heavy handbags dragged along the corridors opening and shutting doors everwatching curtainlifter bird in a room-and-kitchen-cage meddlers that try a finger in every pie ill-fated cleansing rage rags to polish the wind and the rest behind green-eyed landlords and green-bellied rats rag tag of common cats looked down upon from the balconies by the pet dogs and inmates and outmates suspect strangers spitting on cobblestones and pissing in the corners homesure haughtiness at the railing frowns at them hard heart-gates barred down at daytime up at night the Moon’s pale light encloses the loose tin top of the eaves that ever drip 5
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