Elusive Feeling
And I sink in the summer as the wind takes hold
of this sun-shaped box inside
my rib cage.
The green foliage is green with pain,
and I’m somewhere else.
Gods of light recline
in my eyes, but still
I can’t find you
in the dark.
On through the endless night
the candle flickers –
a feeling descends
from the sky.
This dying—
I already forgot.
Peycho Kanev is the author of 8 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, Sheepshead Review, Off the Coast, The Adirondack Review, Sierra Nevada Review and many others.
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