the fulfillment of a desire or else reported missing by moving off the map
the native elder
who lives behind
a wind shaped cliff
on the rocky plain
erased the road
leading to his hogan
from the map
decorating a wall
in the local precinct
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Gabor G Gyukics (b. 1958) Hungarian-American poet, literary translator is the author of 7 books of original poetry, 4 in Hungarian, 2 in English, 1 in Bulgarian and 13 books of translations including A Transparent Lion, selected poetry of Attila József and an anthology of North American Indigenous poets in Hungarian. His latest book titled a hermit has no plural was published by Singing Bone Press in the fall of 2015.
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