creative writing on environmental justice
Sera Gamble’s poems have appeared in publications such as Birdcoat Quarterly, Typehouse, Tinderbox, Sky Island Journal, Lit Angels, and Nine Mile Magazine. She also writes film and television; most recently, she co-created the TV series You and The Magicians. Sera is a first-generation American living in Los Angeles.
when you realize there’s nothing
you can do,
your limbs fill with light.
you rise above lands
cordoned off like VIP areas.
watch the tide swell
over the sweet bodies
of dead bees, smoke
the last air, crown
yourself in final
trees, set yourself
on fire.