Joachim Matschoss: Snow in December
Paperback, 94 pages, incl. CD of poems and songs
Coverdesign: Bill Ellemor
Published by PenFolk Publishing, Blackburn, 2001
ISBN: 1 875894 20 9

SNOW IN DECEMBER

“No matter where you might open the book, you will be greeted by a poem that lays out the bare facts. Joachim Matschoss´s new collection Snow In December is accessible, sharply observed and again deals with the silent gaps between the now and then, the here and there and ultimately between life and death.”

Tom D. Hoffmann

snow in december

today I grew older,
walking down towards the bakery
I felt it,
a bit —

I´m used to looking
towards the horizon,
always with my back
to the aching house —

facing the sea,
the salty stickiness
of a coastal afternoon —
facing what´s out there —

I grew older, today
but not before winter sets in,
with snow in december,
I will be writing poems about
death.