MacQueen’s Quinterly: Poetry & Hybrids: Joshua St. Claire: Noctanthesis

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

Issue 32:	June 2026
Micro-haibun:	48 words

By Joshua St. Claire

Noctanthesis

It was as if—for a single moment—the curtain of reality peeled back to show the mechanism of a plinking music box slowly turning all galaxies of the universe on impossibly slender silver wires—right before slamming shut.

one then the other 
moonflowers 
from her sundress

Bio: Joshua St. Claire

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