"Debris" by Serena Agusto-Cox

Debris

Rifle through debris

bodies

puddled

waiting

children's

bodies

still

bloody

bulleted

bodies

Debris, we've rifled. 3/4/2023

Serena Agusto-Cox's poetry has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and she coordinates poetry programming for the Gaithersburg Book Festival and was a featured reader at the Gaithersburg's DiVerse Poetry reading series and D.C.'s Literary Hill BookFest. Her poems appear in multiple magazines and anthologies. She also founded the book review blog, Savvy Verse & Wit, and Poetic Book Tours to help poets market their books.