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Shadowfly

December 4, 2007 Leave a comment Go to comments

Shadowfly

doubled by the sun
and pinned to this hot bleached wood
which one will fly first?

by Jean Morris

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  1. Michael Nickels-Wisdom
    December 5, 2007 at 1:15 am | #1
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    Oh, very nice. Traditional syllabics. Seasonality unobtrusively suggested. I enjoy the momentary optical illusion in the haiku, the race between insect and insect-shadow. And there’s the implication in the poem (made more explicit in the photo) of a mating pair. And even better, the submerged image of an insect entomologically mounted on a pin vs. the awareness that the actual insect can fly away at any moment. The photo acts as a contemporary haiga (graphic link to a haiku), too.

  2. Lucy
    December 8, 2007 at 12:46 pm | #2
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    Very pleasing. I mostly think of dragonflies for their colour, this highlights their elegance and line.

  3. Anne Morrison Smyth
    December 8, 2007 at 4:11 pm | #3
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    I love this – both the Haiku and the image. The duality is there in all. Anne