Ava Serra
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Ava Serra strives to highlight endangered identities and experiences through poetry and fantasy fiction, often incorporating her experiences with queerness, multiracialism and displaced culture, MDD, GAD, acute PTSD, survivorship, and beyond. Her poems have won awards from the University of Otago and qualified her as a finalist in the Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Awards. Her works have appeared in or are forthcoming from Open Minds Quarterly, Northwestern University's Rosa la Rose, Postscript Magazine, Lavender Review, and Nailed, among others. More of her work can be found on her Facebook page (@avajserra).
harbingers
how very mosquito we are
how devastation-bound
dangerous in extinction proximity
teetering entire populations on the precipice of nothing
integral to the rapture and its prevention
how we are noxious smoke
competitors with volcano ash
predators of the most ravenous explosions
earth rattling then fracture
collision without mountains
harbingers of night though
we have destroyed the moon
impatiently awaiting burnout
so we beckoned it
we made this disaster
what merciless heat death we have wrought
what methods of mercy do we possess to reverse decimation
if at all
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