Martha Strom~Poet/FW 2019

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.