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MacQueen’s Quinterly: Knock-your-socks-off Art and Literature
| Issue 30: | Sept. 2025 |
| Poem: | 119 words |
| Cherita | Sequence |
By Daryl Scroggins
Refuge
“Cacoëthes scribindi: An uncontrollable urge to write.”
—Merriam-Webster online
“‘Momentary deities’ is, I believe, how the Greeks thought of words.”
—Charles Simic in Wonderful Words, Silent Truth: Essays on Poetry and a Memoir (pg. 91)
night scribbling to the sound of distant freight train clatter writhing psyche behind closed eyes old film footage of army ants on the move ::: scrawl sounds like a fishing boat scribble a skipper’s game of lettered tiles scratch the cries of birds when nets are drawn the line—taut to bring what’s under up ::: Isaac revising on his bed of sticks the dagger raised above him rolls to reverse positions holds Abraham close to flames then pulls him away saves his obedient father
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