Famous Reporter # 13: June, 1996

 

 

       

Mark O’Flynn

 

     HAIKU

 

Spiderweb hanging

in its heavy nest of lace

patient for dinner.

 

               Climbing the mountain

            a black bird shrieks into the

                  shadow of evening.

 

 

                    Cars negotiate the bitumen

                    ordered as ants at a sugar spill.

 

 

                                   The mirror stares back

                                  long after I have left its

                                            empty reflection.