"[You tore out the roots of our tenderness]" by Margarita Serafimova

You tore out the roots of our tenderness,
and we are standing, naked gnomes
before a felled fir.

Margarita Serafimova

Margarita Serafimova was a finalist for the Erbacce Press Prize (2018, 2019), Christopher Smart Prize (Eyewear Publishing, 2019), Summer Literary Seminars (2018, 2019), Hammond House Prize (2018), Red Wheelbarrow Prize (2018), Montreal Prize (2017), and nominated for Best of the Net (2018). She has three collections in Bulgarian. Her work appears in Agenda Poetry, London Grip, Waxwing, Trafika Europe, Landfill, A-Minor, Poetry South, Great Weather for MEDIA, Orbis, Nixes Mate, StepAway, Ink Sweat & Tears, Leveler, Light, HeadStuff, Minor Literature[s], The Writing Disorder, The Birds We Piled Loosely, Chronogram, Noble / Gas Qtrly, Origins, The Journal, miller’s pond, Obra / Artifact, Arteidolia / Swifts & Slows, Memoir Mixtapes, glitterMOB, TAYO, Guttural, Punch, Tuck, Ginosko, etc. Visit: https://www.facebook.com/MargaritaISerafimova/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel.

Headshot: Aris Bosmis

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