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Judit Hollos

Judit Hollos is an emerging playwright, poet, essayist and journalist. Some of her short stories, poems, translations and articles have been featured in English and Swedish in literary magazines, periodicals and anthologies. She is the author of two chapbook collections of Japanese-style poetry and short prose. Her monologues and short plays have received staged readings at theaters and festivals in Glasgow, San Francisco, London, Leicester, Birmingham and Kyiv.

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A Refuge’s Life

By Judit Hollos
Budapest, Hungary

a refuge’s life
claimed by the sea
her boat
sinks beneath shards of starlight
painted on the ocean waves

Further Reading:
Boat carrying 45 migrants and refugees capsizes off Yemen – BBC
2023 Messenia migrant boat disaster – Wikipedia
Cuban boat people – Wikipedia


the urge
to flow beyond my banks . . .
a drop of water
longing to go
where oceans rise and fall

Rebecca Drouilhet
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