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In Budapest
By Elias Dahger
Hungary: Toxic red sludge has reached the Danube
-Headline for an Associated Press article by Pablo Garondi, October 7th, 2010
For the one who knows this is hers.
In Budapest, that River
runs with the blood
of lovers and haters,
of war-wagers and the desperate
lights, castles, cathedrals,
and the thorny shadows of long-abandoned barracks.
Th ese watery phantom-choirs
scintillate there,
in grotesque symphony
Once, we anointed her undulating skin
with foaming champagne
and sweet kisses
and the fi erce sweat,
the wax of those undying candles
shimmering like stars
among the crumbling statues
magus ~ 33 ~ mabus