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MacQueen’s Quinterly: Knock-your-socks-off Art and Literature
Issue 32: June 2026
Micro-Haibun: 44 words
By Jared Frank

21st-century inner peace

 
staring 
into the grey 
and cupping my ear 
to the world 

I hear the future 
rush at me 
like an animal 
like a mushroom 
cloud 

and I brace 
for its 
embrace 

the buddha at the heart of a hydrogen bomb  

Jared Frank
Issue 32 (June 2026)

is a poet somewhere in Washington State, who recently decided to take a crack at showing his work to people instead of forest animals. His poetry has appeared and/or is forthcoming in Drifting Sands Haibun; Only Human: A Senryu Journal; Right Hand Pointing; and others.

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punch the monkey and iran away by Jared Frank in dadakuku (11 March 2026)

 
 
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