The Alps in Unassailable Daylight
The great mountains are silent
in the light shadow
of their snows.
I am above them, and mute.
Margarita Serafimova
Looking Up
Silver glint
of wings
in flight
cast confetti
across
the cerulean sky.
Dorothy Swoope
Me in My Jet Fighter
Above Grand Canyon
Some thirty-five thousand feet
Earth’s fractured landscape
Robert McHugh
Margarita Serafimova was shortlisted for the Montreal International Poetry Prize 2017, Summer Literary Seminars Poetry Contest 2018 and University Centre Grimsby International Literary Prize 2018; long-listed for the Christopher Smart (Eyewear Publishing) Prize 2019, Erbacce Press Poetry Prize 2018 and Red Wheelbarrow 2018 Prize, 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, European Literature Network, A-Minor, Poetry South, Great Weather for Media, Orbis, Nixes Mate, StepAway, Ink, Sweat and Tears, Mookychick, HeadStuff, Minor Literatures, Writing Disorder, Birds We Piled Loosely, Orbis, Chronogram, Noble/ Gas, Origins, The Journal, miller’s pond, Obra/ Artifact, Central and Eastern European London Review, Blue Mountain Review, Califragile, TAYO, Squawk Back, Guttural, Punch, Tuck, Ginosko, etc. Visit: https://www.facebook.com/MargaritaISerafimova/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel.
Dorothy Swoope is an award winning poet whose works have been published in print and online in newspapers, anthologies and literary magazines in Australian, the USA and Canada. Her memoir, Wait ’til Your Father Gets Home! was published in 2016. She resides on the South Coast of New South Wales, Australia.
Robert McHugh, native of Baltimore, MD. USAF Navigator WWII, Jet Fighter Pilot Korean War. Retired. Sales and Marketing Consultant. BA degree Princeton, MBA degree NYU. GrandPals senior reading to kindergarteners at 5 different elementary schools in Hopewell-Lawrenceville-Princeton, New Jersey area for last 5 years. Amateur poet and memoirist.
