Eclectic
The moment before
the moment of pain—
for example
her gaze becomes deep as a lake after the autumn rains,
full of drowned men.
We walk alone in the park and the leaves fall, fall…
Empty beer melancholy, we only have this life to live.
Sharks
You must be extremely cautious not to shed a single drop of blood
into the ocean. They are everywhere. They are always hungry, circling.
They are waiting for some wrong movement, for some rash statement.
That is when they will attack you with their sharp teeth of prejudice and
correctness.
So be careful not to drop a single false word into the ocean of
words, into this ocean of poetry.
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.
