Achilles

Empty white room with
three chairs in the middle
and nothing else.
There is a painting on the wall
but someone just took it.
Only the empty memory of it still
hangs there.
Like I said, there are three
chairs.
Identical, ordinary and
boring.
So which one am I?
What do you mean which one?
The chair that bleeds from
one of his legs, of course. 



Peycho Kanev is the author of four poetry collections and two chapbooks. He has won several European awards for his poetry and he’s been nominated for the Pushcart Award and Best of the Net. Translations of his books will be published soon in Italy, Poland and Russia. 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.