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MacQueen’s Quinterly: Knock-your-socks-off Art and Literature
Issue 34: Sept. 2026
Haibun: 81 words
By Matthew Caretti

Top Three for the Apocalypse

 

Voodoo child alone in the denuded forest. Wondering at the sharp riff of drilling, baby.

sticking a pin 
in the orange-skinned doll 
continuing resolutions 

When the levee breaks, the defiant ones scramble to their rooftops. Reckon on salvation.

summer floods 
there above the turbid drawl 
rescue flare fireworks 

Sympathy for the devil a natural end to our evolution. Whole islands now swallowed up.

bevy of sandbags 
where the beach used to be 
waiting for the rapture 

 

Bio: Matthew Caretti

 
 
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