a new sound
from an old instrument
spring thaw
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Cezar-Florin Ciobica (1971- ). From "Frogpond", 37 (3), Autumn 2014, The Journal of the Haiku Society of America. Issue edited by Francine Banwarth and Michele Root-Bernstein.
The kigo "spring thaw" in this haiku matches perfectly with the first two lines. "A New Sound of an Old Instrument" is the title of the 1979 album by Moondog featuring music played on the Breil pipe organ. In the above haiku, "from" is used instead of "of," so we can conclude that it is not referring to a recording of the Moondog album being played as the snow and ice melts, but that the instrument actually exists in front of the poet. Furthermore, since "an" is used rather than "the," we can infer that the instrument does not belong to the poet but rather is being played by someone else. And since the actual kind of instrument is not concretely stated, we can infer that "old" refers not to the physical age of the actual instrument but rather that it is an old kind of instrument. Here we come full circle back to Moondog in imagining it might be a pipe organ. The spring thaw resonates not only with the new sound produced from an ossified preconception of the kind of music that instrument should play, but also shows that the poet's feelings themselves have been freed by the music.
Selected and commented on by Dhugal J. Lindsay
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