in how many dreams have you appeared
that were not
at first
yours
–
hey
–
in movies
–
when streetlights go out one by one
I don’t feel
interrupted
metaphor to grief: one hand grows faster than the other. blood is just milk that can’t see. the way you hold a gun makes me think of a baby’s ear. I do not want a long life.
/. SELF
*recent work
[musics, other]
mother’s
farsick
palm, father’s
pack
of disappearing
nails-
our goldfish
insomnia
~
[lawn musics]
books on arson, grammar, vandalism…
god, multiple owners.
a typewriter
touched by father
at night.
the electric chair my brother imagined
& the hair
my sister…
adam (who’s never known the age of eve
~
[blank elegy]
after death
nothing
(oh citizen)
of god
~
[after field]
bagging the bright mouse in the deer faith of my youth
(missed
appropriately
by any
father
said bone
is all the light
blood
gets…
proof / my last / ghost
and secrecy
genetic
~
[I still bring snow]
I think mom’s new dog must have the bones of a kite. I have a lover, now. a he, a beekeeper. a she if she saddens in the nearness. a nothing, a dowry. ghost china. spacesuits for stillborns. under this blanket, a puppet reads to…
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if childless, we call it mother.
–
how long
did you fake
being young?
–
this part / of her poem / is empty
–
three men remove my shoes
–
translates
to yesterbed
–
self-portrait in milk
Margarita Serafimova was shortlisted for the Montreal International Poetry Prize 2017. She was awarded a merit-based fellowship by Summer Literary Seminars as one of fifty runners-up in their 2018 poetry contest. Margarita has three collections in Bulgarian. Her work appears in Agenda Poetry, London Grip New Poetry, Trafika Europe, European Literature Network, The Journal, A-Minor, Waxwing, Nixes Mate Review, StepAway, Ink, Sweat and Tears, HeadStuff, Minor Literatures, The Writing Disorder, The Birds We Piled Loosely, Noble/ Gas Quarterly, Origins Journal, miller’s pond, Obra/ Artifact, TAYO, Shot Glass Journal, Opiate, Poetic Diversity, Novelty Magazine, Pure Slush, Harbinger Asylum, Punch, Tuck, Futures Trading, Ginosko, Peacock Journal, Anti-Heroin Chic, Liquid Imagination, and many other places. Some of her work: https://www.facebook.com/MargaritaISerafimova/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel.
~~~
The evening port
was passing into the earth.
It was impossible to be outside the blue.
~~~
Resurrection
I looked at the water.
It was the book of life.
After that, I…
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to be
as asleep
as a father’s
left leg
as a birthday
for a window
(i)
since November, isacoustic* has been able to publish 106 contributors, for a total of 253 poems
(ii)
is currently three volumes in, with a fourth to print in June
as such:
second: http://www.lulu.com/shop/barton-smock/isacoustic-volume-second/paperback/product-23543831.html
third: http://www.lulu.com/shop/barton-smock/isacoustic-volume-third/paperback/product-23600773.html
(iii)
some of what is there, for the upcoming volume fourth:
Susannah Nevison & Molly McCully Brown:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/04/28/persons-susannah-nevison-molly-mccully-brown-poem/
Rosemarie Dombrowski:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/05/07/person-rosemarie-dombrowski-six-poems/
Jenny Sadre-Orafai:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/04/25/person-jenny-sadre-orafai-three-poems/
Lydia Renfro:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/04/16/person-lydia-renfro-two-poems/
(iv)
some recent reflections:
on Date Palms, on Pointillism, by Sophia Naz:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/05/04/date-palms-pointillism-poetry-sophia-naz/
on Tremor, by Marisol Baca:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/05/01/tremor-poems-marisol-baca/
on Dark Horse, by Kristina Marie Darling:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/04/27/dark-horse-poems-kristina-marie-darling/
on In This Quiet Church Of Night, I Say Amen by Devin Kelly:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/04/24/in-this-quiet-church-of-night-i-say-amen-poems-devin-kelly/
(v)
if interested in submitting:
submit no less than [3] and no more than [7] pieces (poems) to: isacousticsubmissions@gmail.com
/poems can be in the body of the email or attached, in one file, as PDF, doc, docx
//include a brief and non-clever bio
~
for unsolicited submissions:
in order to be published, [3] of the poems in the submission must be selected by the editors
~
payment for a selected submission is 15.00
/payment will be made within two to three months of the posting /we pay either by PayPal or by regular mail
//previously published and simultaneous submissions are okay
///response time is 3 days ///please inquire if that time passes (without) ///response time for second+ submissions, whether the author was previously rejected or accepted, is two to three weeks, and will not be read by myself (Barton Smock) but by revolving editors only
////if rejected, wait a month before submitting again
note: resubmitting is not advisable if one is doing so to lecture us on what is a fit for our site. that is not resubmitting, that is bullying.
~
every three months, the editors will self-publish a journal of the poems posted in those months. contributors who provide a physical address will receive a hard copy, others a PDF.
be sure to include a physical mailing address to send the journal to. also note how you would like to receive payment, via PayPal or by regular mail.
~
what the editors are looking for:
image-based absence.
/structurally sound offhandedness.
//unreliable clarity.
///purpose.
what the editors are not looking for:
/misogyny and co.
//empty objectification. toward, or of, the body. toward, or of, the spirit.
~
poet and person, as in twice genuine…Trish Hopkinson did some asking after {isacoustic*} here:
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(vi)
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horror movies are all the same.
babies can’t get amnesia.
I once pointed a starting gun at the head of a thing that wasn’t looking.
sleep is the christ of the mind.
between the house of the first suicide
and the house of the second
there’s one
with a dog door.
the moms all work at the same ghost jail.
the dads say things like
/ finally a parrot I can hear / & / in hell
nobody steps
on their reading
glasses.
the dream is there we put our mouths on. our hands.
the dream
that was nest.
brothers dressed like jesus
brush their teeth
and sisters
keep a tender
thumb.
