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MacQueen’s Quinterly: Knock-your-socks-off Art and Literature
Issue 29: August 2025
Haibun: 53 words
By Daryl Scroggins

Accidental Metaphors

 

The plumber ran his snake, a good one and long, powered by a motor sounding a steady thrum, until the clog was reached and pulled out, and it was a rolled book. Part of one anyway: the book of Genesis.

all words His
for us to sort out
saints from wolves

 

Bio: Daryl Scroggins

 
 
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