Here are some of my published poems about my time in Hungary! Hopefully I can post more soon, but I’ll only post my poems after they’ve been published as posting them, even on a blog, prior to publication can disqualify them as eligible from many publications.
If you’re interested in seeing more of my poems about various subjects check out my writers website here which has link to all of my prior publications!
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Piros Yesterday
until yesterday I’d never met her in swelter
magyarország in july when
I suck seeds from her apricots I
call her by her name not my
own bastard tongue’s
anyways, she was red yesterday
dripping from my commissure
raptured by an overspread palacsinta
overexcited knife for overfinom
even though my teeth nearly chipped
the matyó blue plate as I lapped
jam for jam until the dish
feigned clean like mornings
when I pulled mint for my
tea like I do weeds from
anya’s garden before breakfast
I boil water and I watch her star
through steam and sweat and know
no tomorrow will be the same but
I fear I’ll never know plum like that again
by Bailey Dunn, first published in Zeniada Winter 2023
This poem was also the Honorable Mention for The Tom Benediktsson Award for Poetry 2024.
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Mandala Teaház
bocsánat, allergias vagyok levendulára
ghosts wrapped in
lavender leaves
and bourbon smoke
sneak in my nostrils
drag down my throat
zöld haze smothers
elnézést, méz? köszönöm
crushed fekete and
I sip and I sip and I
clutch no-handled
ceramic, tongue still
can’t shape the sound
but I can taste it
bocsánat, beszélek nagyon kicsit magyarul
by Bailey Dunn, first published in The Normal Review Spring 2023 and was selected for Editors Choice in Poetry.
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BND ABROAD 