s w i f t s  &  s l o w s: a quarterly of crisscrossings

Passing Through
Margarita Serafimova & Milen Neykov

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My shoulders were burning

in the crystal-cool sea.

I was passing through the arch of life.

I was not going to sink.

This was not mine but Archimedes’ force.

It was enough for me to be a body.

A Hunt

I was hunting myself.

In Serbian I was hunting myself and in Bulgarian.

We have a common life but it is in the forest, and we are hunting it.

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Poetry by Margarita Serafimova.  Photographs by Milen Neykov.

Margarita Serafimova was shortlisted for the Montreal Prize 2017, Summer Literary Seminars 2018 and Hammond House Prize 2018; longlisted for the Christopher Smart Prize, Erbacce Prize 2018 and Red Wheelbarrow Prize 2018; nominated for Best of the Net 2018. She has three collections in Bulgarian. Her work appears in Agenda Poetry, London Grip, Waxwing, Trafika Europe, A-Minor, Poetry South, Nixes Mate, Journal, Orbis, Minor Literatures, Writing Disorder, Chronogram, Noble/ Gas,  Origins,  glitterMOB, among others.

Milen Neykov works in the area of minimalistic photography as well as in the area of photomanipulation (composite overlay).In 2017, he won the Grand award of Photosynthesis for overall work. Currently, two exhibitions of his are on display. The first exhibition is a traveling one in 5 regions of Bulgaria: Haskovo, Kardjali, Smolyan, Pazardjik and Plovidv. The theme is Women in the cities and villages. It will be displayed in the Sofia University in 2019. The second exhibition is inspired by the poetry of Margarita Serafimova. Her handwriting is implanted in the artwork.