Writing from Hungary

Refracted Light and Grace

Refracted Light and Grace

Scott Gilbertson

Budapest, Hungary Evening, after dinner, outside on the balcony, smoking cigarettes and contemplating the nightscape of Buda's Castle Hill rising up out of its own golden reflection in the shimmering Danube waters. The drone of car horns in the distance and the electric tram squealing as it pulls out of the station below on the river a boat slowly churns upstream...