Kate MacQueen

Legerdemain

Things we knew but kept hidden. The endless bones of memory, fragmented, buried, reshaped, frost-heaved, turned. A trace, a mark, a stain to stumble on. A shoebox of remnants. A ledger of coordinates. The tectonics of divorce.

bleeding hearts
where we pruned hydrangeas
For Sale sign

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About the Author

Kate MacQueen is a social scientist and poet living in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Recent work has appeared in Rattle, Modern Haiku, The Heron’s Nest, Hedgerow, and anthologies including Haiku 2014 (Modern Haiku Press, 2014), Wishbone Moon (Jacar Press, 2018), Best Small Fictions 2022 (Sonder Press, forthcoming), and contemporary haibun 18 (Red Moon Press, 2023).