Blackspire

The Haibun Leg

Slender wands of brown and green dance, heart-shaped green flags flapping in the breeze. Red, purple, and black berries dangle, bounce, drop to the mulch below. One, two, five, twenty, black-eyed, punk-rock tufted, brown-to-yellow, the waxings gorge themselves in waves, spreading Mullberry’s children across Mother Earth’s expanse.

Berry, berry black

Wanton in the bright sunshine

Seed to fecund earth

Instructions

Leg 10 – The Haibun Leg: Write a microfiction as a haibun, which is a short prose passage followed by a haiku.

Traditionally, haibun was about Japanese travel writing, e.g. Matsuo Bashō’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North, where prose and haiku sit together. The prose gives the scene, memory, or experience, and then the haiku comes in and cuts through it, either deepening it, contradicting it, or else.

But this is Fictionwocky, so you don’t have to write about a lovely pond or anything like it. Make it about anything that floats your boat.

Link to remaining prompts.