Bio

Maia Justine Storm is a 78-year-old woman living in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She has been an immigration attorney for 25 years and has returned to her adolescent dream of being a poet. Most recently, she has been published in the Poetry Superhighway, where she was a Poet of the Week; haikuniverse; Antifa Lit Journal; The Mersey Review; The New Verse News; and in forthcoming issues of Procrastinating Writers United, Thema, A Thousand Shades of Green, and Rough Diamond Poetry. She can be found @maiastorm.bsky.social.

tonight's
insomnia!

munching cashews
listening to wails
of sirens and freight trains
smelling the local skunk family making backyard trouble

yawning, i say a little prayer for this hella heaven that envelops me