AXIOM AND GRIEF BY STANIMIR PANAYOTOV
book cover, layout, graphic and art design: Filip Panchev
editor: Nadezhda Radulova
proofreader: Polly Mukanova
72 pages
Metheor, Sofia, 2020
ISBN: 978-619-7291-18-6 (paperback)
ISBN: 978-619-7291-20-9 (hardback)
I. AXIOM
Dead Peace
An Utopia for the Tribe
Death to the Grammatical God
The Savior, Name for a Suitcase
the blinding angelic gas…
The Beautiful and the Rational
21.03.2009
as I submit…
Blind Date
Love in Kevlar
Ivan Shentov
Shelter
II. GRIEF
On August
A Curse
those men in my backbone…
“Watching You” / “Writing Me”
Soliloquy for Two Voids
To the Dark Streets
To the Three Beloved Ones
To Write
Things
What
On the Weight of Your Absent Embrace
III. GRIEVING AXIOMATISTS
Dark Theorems: A Portrait of Tzvetan Marangozov by Zlatomir Zlatanov
Void Formulae: A Portrait of Zlatomir Zlatanov by Tzvetan Marangozov
Criminal Axioms: Self-Portrait by Krassimir Kroumov
A Note
“Watching You” / “Writing Me”
“Watching you”
your body
seen from behind the picture
of me drawn with the bruises
of the bold
brush that you brandish
with wrong
and rotten
memories of the borderless
image of my body that you have not seen
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“Writing me”
there is my body my fingers
skeletal scratches lusting
to fool the distance between
with the flawless easiness of a flash
here are my finger my body my loyal stringer
all easing word after word
the distant desire
with the unruly urge of a uraeus
where my fingers are there are your bodies
written while they walk in
the sentences I cannot brush in
the strokes I cannot hush
wrapped when the words lull the drive to draw you
and while the stylus withholds the poem as
to sing not the song I have not written