Maia Justine Storm

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timeline reaction

sometimes i am the dung beetle

sometimes i am the huge ball of dung
she is pushing

but generally speaking
i am the tiny frog
the dung runs over
who flips back upright
afterwards, thinking
wtf
wt
actual f

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.