Drawing - Haiku III by James Edward Scherbarth

A hatched gray bar floats at the top, a thread hangs from it, and a small red heart of color dangles at the bottom.

Haiku III is a drawing by James Edward Scherbarth in hand colored graphite and pencil on paper, dated 2020 and signed and dated 08-23-2020 on the verso. The haiku tradition prizes a single clear image and a sense of season, and drawings named for it tend toward the same brevity. Here a long horizontal shape is shaded in fine vertical strokes, a tiny loop at its left end. A thin line drops from it to a small cluster of curved outlines with a patch of red at the center. Three black dots fall below like punctuation. It is 7 inches wide and 10 high.

Short, but not without a plot.