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MacQueen’s Quinterly: Knock-your-socks-off Art and Literature
Issue 29: August 2025
Senryu: 8+8+9+11
  = 36 words
By Ron Scully

Four Micro-Poems

 

after all this grief
pancakes
with maple syrup


:::


courthouse flag
wrapped around itself
against the wind


:::


blackbirds
gang up on the jungle gym
past curfew


:::


weekend guests
the scent of their salt
in the beach towels

 

Poems were previously published as listed below, and appear here with the poet’s permission:

“after all this grief” in Pulse: Voices from the Heart of Medicine (30 May 2025)

“courthouse flag” in Fresh Out: An Arts and Poetry Collective (7 May 2025)

“blackbirds” ibid. (26 February 2025)

“weekend guests” in Poetry Pea Podcast (Series 4, Episode 14, 19 July 2021)


Bio: Ron Scully

 
 
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