Peycho Kanev

I’m Looking at You Pouring
Yourself a Glass of Beer
 
This room needs our bodies
much less than we need its emptiness.
There is always something to avoid,
to keep between the thoughts of
two bodies, touching each other, or
breaking away, or entirely broken.
Outside
the darkness feels more civilized
than our animal need to walk towards
the horizon that we know is there but
can’t see it.
However, we are moving towards it.
At the end
the ending enters inside us
and we walk into the infinity.
 


A Fake Memoir
 
Meanwhile,
I open the book
 
to read about nothing,
to read about me.
 
My face is stretched
from cover to cover
 
and the closer I get to the end,
the more my face wrinkles.
 
At the last page I can see the black dogs
sniffing the air.



Peycho Kanev is the author of 12 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 book of poetry titled A Fake Memoir was published in 2022 by Cyberwit.