Big as the Sun
The light penetrates our bones
as butter and we stand tilting
blank faces up in the bitter sky
we saw the past and the present
we saw the cows laying in the fields
with their udders foaming under the sun
looking calm and happy as Buddhists
I remember standing on the ridge
stretching our hands beneath the light
and softly whispering our names to
the sunbeams
watching them go back to the far end of
the galaxy where the first thing uttered
in the eternal darkness will be—
Eve.
PEYCHO KANEV's work has been published in Welter, The Catalonian Review, The Arava Review, Nerve Cowboy, Chiron Review, Tonopah Review, Mad Swirl, In Posse Review, Southern Ocean Review, The Houston Literary Review and many others. He is nominated for Pushcart Award and lives in Chicago. His new collaborative collection "r", containing poetry by him and Felino Soriano, as well as photography from Duane Locke and Edward Wells II is now available at Amazon.
