As a child I was unraveled by worship washed with the harmonies of angels, song so glorious it silenced my little voice and in exchange gave me wings. The sound was a wind on which I spiraled up up up into flame until I was let go to glide down down down the pulse of life into silence. Pulled in two, body and spirit, respun in a concordance of we.
upside down
in the churchyard playground
shaking loose
my imagination
my offering myself
short poems (haiku, senryu, haiga, tanka, haibun, and tanka prose) have been curated by a variety of publications including Acorn; The Best Small Fictions 2022 (Sonder Press, 2022); contemporary haibun online; failed haiku; femku; Frogpond; Haiku 2014 (Modern Haiku Press, 2014); Hedgerow; The Heron’s Nest; Mayfly; Modern Haiku; Nest Feathers (The Heron’s Nest Press, 2015); Presence; Prune Juice; Rattle; several Red Moon Press haiku and haibun anthologies; Ribbons; Snapshot Press Haiku Calendars; Trash Panda Haiku; and Wishbone Moon (Jacar Press, 2018).
She illustrated two Haiku North America anthologies: Dandelion Wind (2008), edited by Michael Dylan Welch and Lenard D. Moore, and Sitting in the Sun (2019), edited by Michael Dylan Welch and Crystal Simone Smith. Ms. MacQueen’s work as a social scientist and health researcher has also been published in a number of academic journals and a few books.
