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Martha Strom’s poems have appeared in New Letters, Passager, Common Ground Review, and Straylight Literary Arts Magazine, among other journals. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
In a Bleecker Street Cafe
I Found Someone to Love Today --Joni Michell
sketchy
white curving
tree limbs
and me
back in missouri
twenty degree sky
gray clouds curving
sketchy
old age
has got me
hanging by a tooth
that youth
i condemn
was me sane
what have i become
but old
curving
toward a home
in the sky
far above
these white branches
way up in those
sketchy clouds
i was seeking the sky
now it seeks me
To view more poems by Martha Srom pick up a copy of the
Fall/Winter 2019 issue of The Stray Branch.