#Haiku Happenings #3: Bill and Nancy Fischer Waters’ latest collaborative #haibun appears in Drifting Sands!
In New Jersey, 2021 was the Summer of Love — for the 17-year cicada. ;- )
My wife Nancy Fischer Waters and I collaborated on a prose / poem piece that captures a moment from that crazy-short time when the air was abuzz with cicadas. Talk about speed dating!
(The prose part is by Nancy. I supplied the title and the tiny poem at the end.)
Seventeen
I really love the 17-year cicadas. After living all but a few weeks of their lives underground, they emerge to fly around like crazy in their frenzied efforts to find a mate and lay the foundation for the next generation. They are a memorable sight, zipping through the air wherever you look!
Another memorable sight from the Brood X “invasion” of 2021 was me: a middle-aged woman screaming, wiggling, and swinging my purse in the Whole Foods parking lot in an effort to…
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