Claudia Serea

Even if you don’t believe in angels

You still have
your life,

heavy,
crumbling, dry,

and you can’t carry it,
but you have no choice,

but to carry it,
a cement cross

on your shoulders
instead of wings.

Claudia Serea’s poems and translations have appeared in Field, New Letters, 5 a.m., Meridian, Gravel, among others, and she’s the author of four poetry collections, most recently Nothing Important Happened Today (Broadstone Books, 2016).