MacQueen’s Quinterly: Poetry & Hybrids: Tracy Royce: Labor Day

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

Issue 32:	June 2026
Micro-Haibun:	47 words

By Tracy Royce

Labor Day

No vacation again this year.

Facebook reveals why my brother can’t help me care for our elderly mother. He and his wife are busy painting inspirational messages on rocks, then planting them in the park for strangers to find.

Santa Ana winds—
my temper 
flares

Bio: Tracy Royce

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