Nora Bossong impresses with her poetry through the art of omission. The laconic brevity of these precisely observed and casually characterizing poems has a high recognition value.

Text excerpt: Rat Catcher // I met two boys under the bridge arch at night, they were urinating on the post and said they were seven, said they had lice. They laughed at me when I wanted to believe it. Nothing to be gained except lice, the younger one revealed. He pointed to the bushes and stepped on my foot. I would have liked to fall in love with him; otherwise, there was nothing else to experience that night. The older one asked if it was true that even the animal cannot die alone. It was too late for boys under that bridge.