The elephant path

30.10.2020

Summer started and you
charged your feelings,
bought a new bikini,
your favourite tanning oil,
sunblock 30.
The sunglasses looked great.

But then, instead, you were
told to wear masks and gloves,
face shields filled with
war time moods.

There was a new elefant path
we had come to, thoughtless.
We know, we will record memories,
dreamless in a dream,
without reality in reality.

Footsteps mark the dust.
On the path of elephants
nothing’s in vain and
nothing will be forgotten.

Illustration by Galya Popova

Sumar Literomania nr. 178

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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