by Maia Justine Storm
Escaping Darfur: Mothers face starvation under trees in Chad —Al Jazeera, June 26, 2026
i give her a breast
that is empty
a bowl
that is broken
a cracked cup
i offer my daughter
weeds and leaves
crushed and boiled
but she
is too hungry to eat them
and i am too sad
to cry
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, Shot Glass Journal, and forthcoming issues of several more journals.