Concave and Convex Images
by Ed Higgins
It's all a matter of warped mirrors. As in the multi-mirrored passage I stood before as a boy at Playland's Fun House near Golden Gate Park. Outside the Fun House entrance giant animatronic Laffing Sal bowing and cackling her frightful laugh: inviting whoever lingered there into life's awaiting illusions. So long ago, entranced as I was, trying to understand those perplexing concave and convex images of myself.
a crow overhead
laughter flyingas I look up
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Author's Note
A Japanese-style haibun published last June in Haibun Today. The piece comes out of a childhood memory of the Fun House (long gone) at Golden Gate Park. Anyone who remembers Laffing Sal will recall how scary she was to a child, but how fun those mirrors were! (http://haibuntoday.com/ht72/h_Higgens_Concave.html)
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I love the first and the last three lines.
Wonderful closing.
I like the juxtaposition of fear and wonder.
Rich language and imagery really evokes the child's perspective trying to figure out himself and his place in the strange adult world around him. Love how the crow in the haiku echoes and answers the prose before it. Nicely done.
Nice parallel. Gives ya the shivers. *
Fascinating read.*