Leftovers • Peycho Kanev

this is what will be
left of me:

bones
flesh
hair
nails
two closed
eyes

and
my heart in your hands

waiting in vain
for another turn of
this stupid dance
while the saddest song
is playing.


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Peycho Kanev is the author of 4 poetry collections 
and two chapbooks. He 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 more than 900 literary magazines, such as: Poetry Quarterly, Evergreen Review, Columbia College Literary Review, Hawaii Review, Cordite Poetry Review, Sheepshead Review, Off the Coast, The Adirondack Review, The Coachella Review, Two Thirds North, Sierra Nevada Review, The Cleveland Review and many others.