Loneliness Pretending to be Absent

‘2020.
Peoples and nations, like exasperated neighbours stuck in a lift, are looking for explanations and where to place the blame (as ever), but also for a way out and salvation.
How could even a crumb of private life be saved?
This question bothers me, as I find it to be existential for all the arts.
For years now it has not been easy with that expanding intrusion into all spheres of privacy, made worse by the pandemic, in a crowded and even more inconvenient world.
Life in pieces or a piece of life?
This is what makes me write.
I am offering a piece of life.’
Marieta Piegeler

Marieta Piegeler was born in Bulgaria and has already published two books of poetry so far: Reflections on the Journey and the Shoes and Such a Thin Dividing Line.
Her poems have been printed in numerous local and national papers in Bulgaria and have been included in a number of anthologies in Bulgaria and in the USA. She won third place in the Little Red Tree International Poetry Prize in 2014. Her first poetry book in German will be published later this year.
Marieta divides her time between Razgrad, Bulgaria, her husband’s native country Germany and Spain, where her parents now live.