Boris Kokotov
The Image
The image of a poet: young, intense,
staring at something visible only
to him, a pen in his hand...
In fact he is over fifty,
shabby, unshaved, with sad eyes,
quietly typing a verse
which he will read later
to a few friends and, possibly,
to his lover who would display
a forced attention that our poet
has learned to condone
along with her faked orgasms.
Bio
Boris Kokotov was born in Moscow, Russia. Currently he lives in Baltimore. He writes poems and short stories in Russian and English languages. He is the author of several poetry collections. He also translated selected poems of German Romantics and contemporary American poets to Russian language. His work appeared in periodicals, most recently in Allegro, The Bewildering Stories, Boston Poetry Magazine, Constellations, Chiron Review, The Lake, The Muse, Adelaide, and Entropy.