After our conversation about artist Alan Nakagawa’s project featuring haiku about social distancing, listeners share some poetry of their own. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Social Distancing and Pandemic Haiku”
You’re listening to A Way with Words, the show about language and how we use it. I’m Grant Barrett.
And I’m Martha Barnette. We asked for your haiku poetry and boy did you oblige.
Here’s one that I really like from David Story, who lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Masks on everyone, sorely missing my friend’s smiles, but then eyes light up.
So much packed into that little poem.
Oh yeah, and the eyes. You just pay more attention these days, don’t you?
You have to. Yeah.
I have another one about masks. This is from Cheryl Musser in Hampton, Virginia.
Mask obscures features. Facial recognition fails. Siri is confused.
Siri is often confused. Siri, get your act together.
Siri and autocorrect. Oh, my gosh.
Siri and Alexa, they need some schooling.
If you still have a haiku about everyday life, glimpses into what you’re doing or just little peeks into your existence, we’d love to read them and share them on the air.
Or write them down.
Put them in email.
