It’s a parody of William Butler Yeats’s “Sailing to Byzantium”.
It’s a homage to a mixed-media painting by Lorette C. Luzajic.
It’s “Swimming to Byzantium“, published in MacQueen’s Quinterly, 6/12/21.
Bill Waters ~~ Haiku: it’s more than only haiku. ;- )
Little by little, “small” has become “the next big thing”. :- D
To bring popular old poems into line with this passion for the petite, I recast Lewis Carroll’s 28-line nonsense poem “Jabberwocky” into a quatrain.
“Jabberwocky, Summarized”: you can now read in ten seconds what otherwise would have taken you an entire minute. (You’re welcome. LOL!- )
and then the sound
of an ice cream truck—
I pat my pockets
low battery —
trying to silence
the wrong smoke alarm
Published in Brass Bell: A Haiku Journal (https://brassbellhaiku.blogspot.com/2021/06/sound-no-sound.html), 6/1/21.