http://qarrtsiluni.com/2007/12/04/shadowfly/ online literary magazine Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:09:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://qarrtsiluni.com/2007/12/04/shadowfly/#comment-1860 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 21:11:06 +0000 http://qarrtsiluni.com/2007/12/04/shadowfly/#comment-1860 I love this – both the Haiku and the image. The duality is there in all. Anne

]]> http://qarrtsiluni.com/2007/12/04/shadowfly/#comment-1855 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 17:46:21 +0000 http://qarrtsiluni.com/2007/12/04/shadowfly/#comment-1855 Very pleasing. I mostly think of dragonflies for their colour, this highlights their elegance and line.

]]> http://qarrtsiluni.com/2007/12/04/shadowfly/#comment-1810 Wed, 05 Dec 2007 05:15:55 +0000 http://qarrtsiluni.com/2007/12/04/shadowfly/#comment-1810 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.

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