SANDOR KANVADI
Space-Crossing Gate
when the news got around in
ever increasing circles
that infinity has no borders
that a world can be imagined
without axioms and postulates
parading as fundamental truths
that through a point several straight lines
can be drawn parallel
to the straight lines drawn around the point
in an imaginary circle
and that circle of imagination
can increase in size
to
infinite
proportions without borders
they decided for the sake of public safety
to close off infinite space
with a plain pine-beam
crossing gate
Translated from the Hungarian
by
Paul Sohar
,
.-
GEZA
szoes
Osip Mandelstam's Letter from the Labor Camp
My country is about a hundred
feet wide. My wife lives overseas. Down
the feverish bronchia of the well
a pail is aflame, and foxfire flees .
Patience weaves a scarf around my neck,
chokes my throat, it's quite a tease.
