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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.

 

   *

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.

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