Book of the Week: Eye To Eye With A Frog
George Swede has been producing world-class haiku for four decades. Some of his best-known pieces came from this modest chapbook from Juniper Press in 1981. Note his adoption of the one-liner, a relative newcomer at that time.
You can read the entire book in the THF Digital Library.
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Haiku featured in the Book of the Week Archive are selected by Jim Kacian, following a concept first explored by Tom Clausen, and are used with permission.
Dropping stone after stone into the lake—I keep reappearingGrowing a body of ants fish headGrowing a body of ants fish headMental hospital my shadow stays outsideTrapped in a bad haiku fluttering butterflyAmazed at my life three magpiesAfter the search for meaning bills in the mailAt the end of myself pencil tip
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” Dropping stone after stone” would have to be my pick. It produces metaphorical ripples, too.
Love George’s work. He has that magical touch of including the reader so intimately.
Excellent book of haiku. The end of it came before I was ready. Thank you for sharing.
I love the existential truth of master Swede’s senryu. He is one of my haiku heroes.
-Patrick