MacQueen’s Quinterly: Poetry & Hybrids: Cynthia Anderson: Why I Don’t

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MacQueen’s Quinterly: Knock-your-socks-off Art and Literature

Issue 32:	June 2026
Micro-Haibun:	46 words

By Cynthia Anderson

Why I Don’t

It happens every time. 
Fifteen minutes after a toke, 
I start talking and laughing nonstop. 
Then, fifteen minutes later, 
I suddenly shut up and retreat 
into a sadness so deep 
it doesn’t have a name.

downspout the torrent washed clean out of me

Bio: Cynthia Anderson

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