Chaos Theory

In the previous Issue #4 of The Pan Haiku Review, Editor Alan Summers put out the submission call for his second all-haibun issue, specifying:

“I want to read haibun and tanka-bun that excites and intrigues. That works with tension: Tension can be included via storytelling twists.”

With that, I submitted “Chaos Theory,” a playful haibun laced with double entendres, spicy metaphors and a risqué twist. I’m delighted it was accepted by Alan and published in Issue #5 of The Pan Haiku Review.

Chaos Theory

My physics teacher, Miss Bellum, has the best chalkboard cursive I’ve ever seen. She holds chalk as an extension of her elegant fingers, gliding smoothly through flourishes of perfect lines with proportionate curves in all the right places. Difficulty choosing a subject for my term paper was met with her insistence on remaining after class to help. Later, pressed against the blackboard in a sinfully deep kiss, we consider magnetism, fluid dynamics and biophysics, ruling out thermodynamics since there’s no interest in resisting heat. Ultimately, we agree on astrophysics.

moon phase
revealing a side
never seen before