MacQueen’s Quinterly: Poetry & Hybrids: Darlene O’Dell: Untitled Shahai (first line: "ninth inning")

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Issue 31:	Jan. 2026
Shahai:	9 words

By Darlene O’Dell

Untitled shahai (ninth inning): Poem and photograph © by Darlene O’Dell
Poem and photograph © by Darlene O’Dell. All rights reserved.

ninth inning
the sweat of my father
my own

Bio: Darlene O’Dell

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