Showing posts with label surprise. Show all posts
Showing posts with label surprise. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 28, 2017

The surreal surprise haiku

Black, black cherries. And
suddenly an eruption
of earwigs, earwigs.


– Leonard Blumfeld (© 2017)

Note
Did not happen quite that way. But I started eating a nectarine when a big earwig fell out of the pit, which had partially split the way it sometimes happens with nectarines. That was surreal enough, actually. But then I thought of a pile of black cherries and discovering, when taking a closer look, that there were masses of earwigs underneath a thin layer of cherries...