Peycho Kanev (3 poems)
Hunger for Everything
Between the idea and the word there is much more
than we'll ever know.
There are ideas for which
there will be no words.
Standing on a moonlit winter mountaintop
with dark clouds racing under dead stars.
The Proof?
The eye sees how the hand moves.
You were created. Now move on
to your existence. And go somewhere.
Everywhere.
Not the Schrödinger's Cat
Charlie, sleeping on the black leather couch
as if the rest of the humanity
is gone forever, us—
then he goes to the rattan sofa, moving
with that grandly aristocratic air, indicating
that he does not care about us at all.
But
he’s still alive here,
he’s still alive there.
We just to have find ourselves.
Pour Two Cups
The light of dawn through the kitchen window,
illuminating empty cups and black ladles
like question marks hanging over the sink
and the esoteric metaphysics of the black coffee
brewing in the pot.
*
Rustle of sheets and cackle coming from the bedroom.
*
What if there’s nothing else but the emptiness
of nothingness.
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Pour two cups and drink those and go.
Be exactly there.
But where?
Exactly!
Peycho Kanev is the author of 6 poetry collections and three chapbooks, published in the USA and Europe. His poems have appeared in many literary magazines, such as: Rattle, Poetry Quarterly, Evergreen Review, Front Porch Review, Hawaii Review, Barrow Street, Sheepshead Review, Off the Coast, The Adirondack Review, Sierra Nevada Review, The Cleveland Review and many others. His new chapbook titled Under Half-Empty Heaven was published in 2019 by Grey Book Press.