crowded café
a fly goes in and out
of our conversation
Published by
Bob Lucky
Bob Lucky is the author of Careful Not to Startle the Yaks (Cyberwit, 2025) My Wife & Other Adventures (Red Moon Press, 2024), My Theology: Not Always True But Always Truth (Cyberwit, 2019), Conversation Starters in a Language No One Speaks (SurVision Books, 2018), a winner of the James Tate Poetry Prize 2018, and Ethiopian Time (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2014). He lives in Portugal.
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Your haiku is delightful. I’ve been there before.
Beautiful!
What a fun haiku as opposed to the actual fly in and out of the conversation. Next time, I'll re-frame
our three-way conversation.
What a wonderful pre-Covid memory! I love a crowded cafe with the sound of enthusiastic people and cutlery tapping and even a few nosy flies! Please spare me and the fly loud music!
Liked it!
How many times I would try to impress a beautiful young woman as a fly showed me flailing about in our conversation.
still rubbing his hands together old Issa
I love this, Bob. The weaving path of the fly set against the pattern of conversation… and the suggestion of 'things' being returned to by this image… it packs in so much. Wonderful.