No Swimming Today
Martha Strom
and when i got out of the pool
my tailbone hurt
the day took a bite out of me too
mean icy teeth
in a bright gold smile
yellow the ginkgo too
baby snow born in fire
bind your teeth
don’t say
set your sights on someone
more like yours
someone with white light
for a moustache
mind
wishes this body could swim
jack says it is zero degrees
In Ontario
Martha Strom lives in Brooklyn, New York, after starting out in Cincinnati, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Boston, Princeton, and Atlanta. So she feels grateful to get to settle in and write in NYC. Her poems have also appeared in New Letters, Passager, Common Ground Review, and other journals. Recently, some of her art appears in Straylight Literary Arts Magazine.