MacQueen’s Quinterly: Poetry & Hybrids: Daryl Scroggins: Retreat

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

Issue 32:	June 2026
Micro-Haibun:	37 words

By Daryl Scroggins

Retreat

Abandoned buildings; the pigeon-fraught undercarriages of highway bridges; shadow caves beneath boxwood hedges: when I see these places and go away, I wonder if I’m still there.

leaves fallen 
to the count of one 
under snow

Bio: Daryl Scroggins

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