A Magpie is on the Train Tracks
By Ezra M. Serra
What are those, crickets?
It is still the middle of the day.
A magpie is on the train tracks
and that is where I should be,
cradling it between my palms, cradling
the train above my body.
Ezra M. Serra is a queer Catalonian poet in recovery who can be found cloud-gazing somewhere. They write about childhood, grief, and anything akin to love. His poetry is centered around the body as the recipient of experience and sensation. Their work has been published or is upcoming in The Ex-Puritan, Archer Magazine, Seedlings, and Lucky Jefferson and he was a finalist in the latter’s 2024 Poetry Contest.