"Uncertainty" Peycho Kanev

Uncertainty

Dimly lit room
with a flickering candle.

This small statuette of Buddha
on top of a thick book with
a big cross on the cover.

Half-empty bottle
under half-empty heaven.

Not life,
but something else.

Peycho Kanev

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 others.

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