Serena Agusto-Cox was one of the first featured poets of the DiVerse Gaithersburg reading series in Maryland. Poems are in The Magnolia Review, MacQueen's Quinterly, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Dime Show Review, Dissonance Magazine, Mothers Always Write, Bourgeon, and elsewhere. Work appears in the This Is What America Looks Like anthology, Mom Egg Review’s Pandemic Parenting issue, The Plague Papers digital anthology, H.L. Hix’s Made Priceless, Love_Is_Love: An Anthology for LGBTQIA+ Teens, and Midge Raymond’s Everyday Book Marketing. She also runs the book review blog, Savvy Verse & Wit, and founded Poetic Book Tours to help poets market their books.
based on “Lotus” by Yun Suknam (2003)
When I was small, my mother was large she’d hold out her hand, waiting. I wanted that cookie, she’d want a kiss She’d hold the cookie high, I would jump. I knew how the dog felt, begging for bones. It was a chocolate delight, but the work of begging is hard. As I grew, the […]
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