Claudia Lapp (1946-2026)
The highway is full of
semi
colons while a guitar
gently weeps.
You arrived where we’re
all heading.
Hope there are wild
horses waiting for you there.
The world was full of
shiny souls
giving you joy
Actually, it was the
other way around
when you were around.
Around our lives you spun
threads of love
as fine as your sunray
hair.
We knew it. We were
ignorant.
You were living your
loving life.
No eulogy this
but a hymn to your rising
dancing under harvest
moons, by cloud gates.
Friend,
loved your fuck me shoes
& your Honey.
So long sweet, sensual, spiritual Dakini.
Nearing a Thousand Islands.
Hey Cel
When I’m not thinking of
you, send me a sign,
a poem, a sigh, a laugh
that sings among chimes.
It was raining a few
minutes ago.
Leonard is asking you to
dance him to the end of love.
I’m sure you won’t. For you there was no end.
Just beginnings.
I’m stuck in traffic,
behind a semi colon
carrying goods.
You charted the stars. What more can you do?
I already miss you
but you are here because
I’m missing you.
Endre Farkas was born in Hungary. His family escaped during the 1956 Hungarian uprising and settled in Montreal. He was/is member of The Vehicule poets.
He has published two novels, twelve books of poetry and two of his plays have been produced. His work has been translated into Hungarian, French, Spanish, Italian, and Slovenian. He has read and performed in Canada, the United States, Latin America, and Europe, and has created performance pieces that have toured across Canada and abroad.
His book How To was nominated for the AM Klein poetry award in 1983. He is the two-time winner of the CBC radio Poetry “Face Off” Competition.
His collaborative (with Carolyn Marie Souaid) book and videopoem Blood is Blood was the winner at Zebra’s International Poetry Film Festival (Berlin) 2012.
His two novels Never, Again and Home Game were published by Signature Editions in 2016 & 2019 respectively. Home Game was shortlisted for the Hugh MacLennan prize for Fiction. He won the Balasi Balint Translation prize 2025 in Hungary. His first novel Never, Again is being translated into Hungarian. Excerpts were published in Freeside magazine in Hungary.
He is currently curating, with Carolyn Marie
Souaid, a Facebook art project “Watermelon War Wednesday.” It will be launched
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