The Encounter by Peycho Kanev

Walking in a dark and

dense forest, I reached

a sunlit spot and tiny creek

was running there and

a reindeer was drinking

from it with a bowed head.

Then he stood up,

looked at me and it was like

some secret agreement

passed between us.

We stayed like this

for a while. I’m not sure

exactly how long. Nature

has different kind of clocks.

Then we turned our backs

to each other and

we both started looking

for some other miracle

we could enjoy. 

Peycho Kanev is the author of 6 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 many others. His new chapbook titled Under Half-Empty Heaven was published in 2019 by Grey Book Press.