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Upside down

24.12.2022

Today we will leave the lights switched off,
light candles and wait till early morning hours,
till night lets us go.
Life will continue.
The heat of a cup in your hands.
In that delimited space of time, while
you are sitting in the kitchen and
gazing out of the window, you percieve
your heartbeat turning things upside down.
The world hangs the other way around and
we are suspended in air like bats grabbed
to the Earth. Slowly the heat crawls up
your arm, from the cup to the heart.

Illustration by Galya Popova

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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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