PEYCHO KANEV
Kick it up a notch
These leaves of grass,
these secrets buried in us!
We try each and every day
to trick our lives,
but we can’t.
And we wait
in this ivory tower
for our destiny to take the right
path!
Is that
our predestination?
The wind wears holes in our bodies,
the rotten structure of time, our cracks,
which we try to piece together with our backs
turned, each to the other.
In the empty holes of history
the currents whistle.
We learn, and
then, we forget.
Peycho Kanev is the Editor-In-Chief of Kanev Books. His poetry collection Bone Silence was released in September 2010 by Desperanto. A new collection of his poetry, titled Requiem for One Night, will be published by SixteenFourteen in 2013. Peycho has won several European awards for his poetry, and he’s nominated for the Pushcart Award and Best of the Net. His poems have appeared in hundreds of literary magazines, such as Poetry Quarterly, Evergreen Review, Hawaii Review, Cordite Poetry Review, Sheepshead Review, The Coachella Review, Two Thirds North, Sierra Nevada Review, The Cleveland Review and many others.
