Frogpond 34.3 • Autumn 2011 (pdf) - Haiku Society of America

has been removed and the reader’s experience is one of
delight, empathy and insight.
Many thanks for allowing me to set the record straight.
Of 34:2
Hortensia Anderson, New York, New York on the Editor’s
Note on “deja-ku” by George Swede. [It] evoked the memory
of a delightful email exchange I had with Christopher Herold
in which I pointed out that a haiku of mine was remarkably
similar to one of his. Mine, penned in 2006:
foghorn—
the heron dives
into the sound
has a startling resemblance to the one by Herold:
foghorns
we lower a kayak
into the sound
I knew Christopher had never read mine since I never published
it. I also knew there was no mutual influence since
mine came from an entry in my 1972 journal:
“Just lazing around in my canoe, with the foghorn blasts, gulls
diving in the sound.”
In fact, my original was:
foghorn –
gulls diving in and out
of the sound
I emailed Christopher and we exchanged stories of how our
haiku came into being. They were, as in L2, completely different.
The similarity, of course, is in the play on the word
“sound” with “foghorn(s).”
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