Walking or Running towards the face of an uncertain reality…needlessly?

Deadly recent tornados plummeted parts of the United States even as “19” continued its deadly presence.

Most US medical experts have determined the disease’s national peak has not yet been reached in the States, but it is coming.

It is coming.

It will come.

Before that moment in time…

People continue to die, yet the Curve is flattening for some regions.

People continue to die.

And the horrific reality and shame is that it is them and not us.

There are presidential calls to jump start the US economy even if such a mandate may be unconstitutional.

Elected “united” officials in various States perceive “towards” more of a cautious walk than a spirited run.

And what do residents who continue to lose family members and friends do to stop the insanity that

permeates national leadership and its trickle-down dictatorial community confusion?

Do we run?

Walk?

Crawl?

Or just hope?

Or sit in massive traffic jams trying to get food from available food banks?

Or watch grocery workers and truckers of food supplies and medicine get the virus and die?

aaduna trusts that as people embrace the works of creatives whether it is music or dance via live streaming; reading a book that has been sitting in dust mites, or hunkering down to view classic movies on cable, or binge watching favorite TV programs, or fence chatting from 6-8 feet away screaming words through face masks, society will find ways to maintain an enhanced level of self-worth, sanity and graciousness towards others.

aaduna hopes that respect for others and our supportive attitude towards them will elevate humankind to its next level of goodness. So…

It is in that spirit…we present five micro poems from

Margarita Serafimova of Sofia, Bulgaria and London, United Kingdom.

Margarita Serafimova [photo provided]

Margarita Serafimova is a Pushcart Prize 2020 nominee and a finalist in nine other U.S. and international poetry contests. Her chapbook, “Surgery of A Star” (Staring Problem Press, CA), is forthcoming in 2020. She has four collections in Bulgarian. Her work appears widely, including at Nashville Review, LIT, Agenda Poetry, Poetry South, London Grip, Waxwing, A-Minor, Trafika Europe, Noble/ Gas, One, Obra/ Artifact, Great Weather for Media, Origins, Nixes Mate, Writing Disorder, Orbis, Moria. 

Visit: https://www.facebook.com/MargaritaISerafimova/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel.


On a Thursday, the sun cradle swung,

and took my father away.

In the empty centre, I revolved.



Σεραφεὶμ, spoke Peter.

Yes, my father said,

and lightly lay down on the green grass,

and above him, the invisible fire exploded.



The Great Summer Triangle

I see my father’s laughing face,

no matter that it is dark.



27 March

My father is forever out of town until his birthday.

The days, the months turn in their circle,

and my father stands beside my life,

a sign of everything.



This March was leaving, the same as my father,

to the other side of the light

where there is no opposite, there is no dark. 

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As aaduna graciously moves away from its memory images of New Orleans, the journal remains rooted in the knowledge that its readers trust and believe that the sun always rises eventually; blue skies and softening clouds will engulf the earth’s communities when the “19” devastation is over. And how we have treated others in these times of unplanned adversity will become the way we treat the same folks when there is no darkness defining our sense of their self-worth.   

In the light with no pending disasters, we shall remain grateful for their being and how they enrich our lives! 

All people as one people.

Stay safe.  Be well.

bill

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