"The Dirty Gods" by Margarita Serafimova

The Dirty Gods

They are the ones who have sand in their hair
when they swim out of stones,
and grit under their nails from caressing corals;
they make Earths out of planets,
and octopuses touch and hold them,
and I belong to them. 

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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