MacQueen’s Quinterly: Poetry & Hybrids: Cynthia Anderson: Caught in the Act

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

Issue 27:	March 2025
Micro-Poem:	31 words
Split	Sequence

By Cynthia Anderson

Caught in the Act

safe harbor 

building their way 
towards thunder 
morning clouds 

the quiet ripples 

a rusted door 
creaking open 
the frog’s croak 

at sunrise 

speaking terms 
the cat and mouse 
of phone tag

Bio: Cynthia Anderson

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