Kovács András Ferenc: Description of a synagogue (Egy zsinagóga leírása in English)

here is the table – best work of Antwerpen
here is the armchair – the produce of Warsaw
here is the oil-lamp – the glory of the hands
of marannus goldsmiths

casually fastened
on the sweaty crown of a skull
a rag knotted at all four corners

here is the wall – fingernail messages
here is the curtain – High German weaving
here is the smoke – a grille to the heavens
here is the grate – a tent for all smokes

a handkerchief -
a little piece of sky
on the skull on the vault that is man

here in the furrowed embrasure
a faded parchment scroll
a keystone
on dentures of the dead
a glass splinter
in the mouth
a flare of light