MacQueen’s Quinterly: Poetry & Hybrids: Daryl Scroggins: Gift of the Magpie

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

Issue 34:	Sept. 2026
Micro-Haibun:	37 words

By Daryl Scroggins

Gift of the Magpie

Years later he found the lost ring in a bird’s nest, in a bush by the back gate, near the flowers she used to water.

puddle left 
by river’s evening ebb—
minnow lights

Bio: Daryl Scroggins

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