Chords Confer
Haiku by Nitu Yumnam and Caroline Wermuth
yellow alert
cicadas' buzz
intensifies
Nitu Yumnam
India
a lawn mower drones
in the distance
the smell of grass
*
from the open windows
of a passing car
music spills across yards
Caroline Wermuth
Pennsylvania
Editor Bio: Lakshmi Iyer likes to live in the breath of words and sounds that speak of her observations, experiences and inner silences. She is the co-editor of amber i pause. Her interview, ‘New to Haiku:Advice to Beginners’ by The Haiku Foundation can be read here. She had her palette of 31 Indian poets sharing their poems in the recent August Per Diem of The Haiku Foundation here. Her collection of poems are portrayed in April 2024 in Mann’s Library Mann Library’s Daily Haiku
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