Six Haikus Explaining Life
By: Mark Kodama
The Fly
The noise of the fly,
Shattered quiet of the shade,
On a summer’s day.
Undocumented,
But history nonetheless,
Etched in the
Memory of a mortal man.
The Frog
The frog eyed its prey.
A dragonfly hovers near.
Thwaak! Mmmm. Delicious.
The Dying Coyote
The coyote cries,
As death patiently calls him.
The fate of living things.
Bones of the hominid
Bones of the hominid,
That no longer walks the earth
Extinct for years past.
The Tree Snail
The tree snail dies,
Its kind forever extinct,
2019.
Star Dust
We were born of stars
And to stars we shall return,
To be born again.