Remembering Kinga Fabó

Hungarian poet Kinga Fabó, (born November 1, 1953) passed away March 4, 2021. She never submitted work to Unlikely Stories, but was a dedicated member of our Facebook group, and a well-known voice in literary discussions on small-press Facebook. Here, we reproduce twenty-six of her poems, as translated by Gabor G. Gyukics.

A detailed obituary can be found at Hungarian Literature Online.

 

Kinga Fabó

 

The Shadow
Imagine
Thrift Shop Charm
Opening the Opera Ball
Generating It at Many Spots of the Word
The Voyeur
Snowqueensnowking
Or Yes
He Was Wilted and Decadent
Do It Carefully
Everything Arises in the Sudden Emptiness
Anesthesia
Nothing But Miss Havisham
I'm not a city
Lovers
Androgen
The Suskind Perfume
Secret Thread
Once my age
A Suicidal Reflection
Chippendale
The Plural of a Parasite
Lesbos...
Fountain
Blow Wind, Blow
Dracula Orchid