möbius strip
by John Hawkhead
sending a thank-you card
for a thank-you card
A möbius strip is a surface with only one side and one edge. It is created by folding a strip of paper by one half-twist and then joining the two ends. This seems counterintuitive but a line drawn on paper will eventually meet itself if continued along the entire length of the joined strip – thus demonstrating it only has one side and one edge.
The möbius strip symbolises infinity and so this sciku uses a never-ending exchange of ‘thank-you’ cards between overly polite persons to link with the concept.
Further reading:
‘Möbius strip’, Wikipedia article, available: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6bius_strip
Author bio:
John Hawkhead (@haikuhawk.bsky.social) is a writer and artist from the south-west of England. His work has been published globally over the last 25 years, including three books of haiku / senryu: ‘Small Shadows’ and ‘Bone Moon’ (available from Alba Publishing. http://www.albapublishing.com/) and ‘Four Horse Parable’ (available from Nun Prophet Press).