Extraordinary

13.11.2020

Marco Grosse

The silence in this place
covers everything.
The deep green olive trees,
the dusty white stones,
the sunburned grass,
the dry bushes,
the orange coloured walls,
the terracotta roofs,
the far deep blue sea,
the singing of the cicadas,
the rush of the passing car,
the barking of a dog,
the silence of the wind.
Everything is covered in silence.
We are silent, too.
But we are making noise with thoughts.
They consume us.
But right now, something extraordinary
is happening.

Illustration by Galya Popova

Sumar Literomania nr. 180

Despre autor

Marco Grosse

Marco Grosse, born in Buenos Aires in 1974 from German father and Italian mother, works as a writer, translator and teacher. Due to the diplomatic work of his father he lived in Canada, Egypt, Italy and Germany. He studied Law in Milan and in Bonn, pursuing with Linguistic and Cultural Mediation. In Italian language, he published the short story collections „I giardini imperiali”, De Ferrari, „2006” and „Pioggia”, De Ferrari, 2010. In German, he published a book with short stories titled „Die Grenze liegt am Horizont”, Bernstein-Verlag, 2013; the poem collections „Flügelkunde”, Horlemann Verlag, 2014; „Die Erschließung des Meeres”, MolokoPrint, 2016, „Flüsterndes Licht”, Haymon Verlag, 2017, a chain poem together with Nora Gomringer, Annette Hagemann, Ulrich Koch and Klaus Merz; and again a book with poems titled „Orte”, MolokoPrint, 2017.

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