PETYO PEYCHEV



CLOUDS AT SUNSET

And out of a sudden
you see your life
as a concave country scene
in different seasons
or at different hours of the day …
Your life-
a piece of land
wedged between the horizons,
a province over which
the clouds still condescend to pass.
And they slide
heavy with tinges of crimson,
the slide with the heavy caress of the ruler,
his body grows over and over,
echoes in the generations….
Pass by the ancient civilizations of the clouds
and take away
the forms of your secret existence
and tear off
the springs of your senses rank with thirst
and leave you again
lonely and unsheltered-
a pray to the celestial scilence.




NOSTALGIA

Light crunching air,
mild explosions along the adge of cognition.
The wing of the airplane, viewed from inside,
without hearing the roar of the engines,
but knowing about its existence.
The wing of the airplane
with stitches and knittings
against the backgroound
of the miniature, unfolding down.

Darkstoned houses
With peaked roofs and ornaments,
Muffled Gothic,
absorption with basaltic roots.
Nostalgia for the times
When mentality had its tangible dwelling.
The trailing nostalgia
That gives your suffocating spirit
Another precious gulp.



Translated by the author