MacQueen’s Quinterly: Poetry & Hybrids: Jane Edna Mohler: Unstoppable

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

Issue 24:	30 Aug. 2024
Poem:	62 words

By Jane Edna Mohler

Unstoppable

the moon’s wordless drift 

a chicken hellbent streaking for a fat beetle 

the midnight banter of secrets between roof and rain 

even the elderly 

elms that line the road 

will cross to the other side 

after hosting the nurseries of squirrels 

all that leafing and dropping 

falling 

the act they’ve rehearsed in their deepest heartwood 

getting where we need to go

Bio: Jane Edna Mohler

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