Logo, MacQueen's Quinterly
Listed at Duotrope
MacQueen’s Quinterly: Knock-your-socks-off Art and Literature
Issue 21: 1 Jan. 2024
Poem: 60 words
By L. Ward Abel

Suited


 
A few days before 
	the war started 
I heard a long 
	program of 
Debussy; it was 
fitting 
	that the station 
wasn’t clear 
and fitting 
I wasn’t in Berlin 
	or Kandahar 
or Havana or Beijing 
	or Carthage 
or Stalingrad 
	but 
here, drenched under 
Jefferson’s tree 
	in the middle 
	of old pastures 
only suited 
	to cattle 
and the scattering 
of stones. 
L. Ward Abel’s
Issue 21 (1 January 2024)

work has appeared in hundreds of journals (Rattle, Versal, The Reader, Worcester Review, Main Street Rag, and others), and he is the author of four full collections and ten chapbooks of poetry, including his latest collection, Green Shoulders: New and Selected Poems 2003–2023 (Silver Bow, 2023). He is also a composer and performer of music (as Max Able; with Abel, Rawls and Hayes; and presently with Abel and Rawls), releasing twelve albums over the past thirty-five years. Abel resides in rural Georgia.

 
 
Copyright © 2019-2024 by MacQueen’s Quinterly and by those whose works appear here.
Logo and website designed and built by Clare MacQueen; copyrighted © 2019-2024.
Data collection, storage, assimilation, or interpretation of this publication, in whole
or in part, for the purpose of AI training are expressly forbidden, no exceptions.
⚡   Please report broken links to: MacQuinterly [at] gmail [dot] com   ⚡

At MacQ, we take your privacy seriously. We do not collect, sell, rent, or exchange your name and email address, or any other information about you, to third parties for marketing purposes. When you contact us, we will use your name and email address only in order to respond to your questions, comments, etc.