Can you imagine, for over a century my beard has been lost; quite forgotten in the Antarctic woodlands - says God to the journalists gathered around him. And who was the one who found your beard? - inquires one of the thronging flock of reporters.
A tree creeper found it by accident…on the top of a tree on an iceberg – says God. I was sleeping here in New York when I felt someone tug on my beard. They were pulling so hard that I fell off the bed.
This is the news I heard this morning on Radio Yerevan. It is my favorite radio station. On Mondays, it broadcasts news from heaven. On Fridays: from hell.
surfing
through static
a voice in the waves
Authors Note: Ekphrastic haibun is based on a watercolour of a dead tree creeper found in a Cape Adare hut in the Antarctic and attributed to Dr. Edward Adrain Wilson (a member of Robert Falcon Scott’s 1911 expedition).