Kate MacQueen

Where the sun keeps shining

Long shadows of clouds stretch across mudflats at low tide. The sun glares white across a narrow winding channel. The airplane banks to the east, land drops away, and when we level out farmland rises up. The destined city is nowhere to be seen.

lost placemark
I choose uncertainty
and close the book

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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).