Frank J. Tassone

Month: July 2019

  • Once Wagons Rumbled

    #Haiku Happenings #8: Al Gallia’s latest #haibun! Searching for Serendipity May, 2019. My wife and I are headed north on US191 in southeastern Utah toward Moab and Salt Lake City. The two-lane highway leads us over the high plains desert plateau and through gorgeous scenery of red rock, pinyon pines, junipers, purple sage, and blackbrush.…

  • At the Stroke of Three

    Originally posted on William Michaelian: It can happen any time — one instant you’re in the warm-water wash, and the next you’re a sheet on the line. four hands two cups of tea table a dream pot a bouquet memory For Robert, Mark, and Stanley, June 29, 2019

  • Meanwhile: a #haibun

    We climbed red rocks in Sedona. Traveled to the Grand Canyon, Horseshoe Bend and Antelope Canyon. Saw sunset from Airport Mesa. Meanwhile, The President of the United States tweeted this: Southwest twilight another sign of the dark We toured the Hoover Dam. Strolled through the malls and gambling halls of the Las Vegas Strip’s showcase…

  • PSA (7/20/19): your haijin returns

    I’m back! We returned from our Southwest sojourn early this morning. While we already miss the prestine beauty of Sonoma country and the Mohave, we’re happy to be home! And now, for some housekeeping: You can expect my ordinary blogging schedule to resume The next #Haikai challenge should go up today. It will include recaps…

  • My Daily #Haiku (7/20/19)

    “Leaving Las Vegas” a desert wind blows across the runway

  • sequence

    Originally posted on weird laburnum: the cycle will turn structurally lower yields flood the system with liquidity the stream of future the cycle will turn higher yields undermine responses to sluggish growth depreciations heighten risk the cycle will turn complex instruments are the heart in mismatches obligations are longer term the cycle will turn a…

  • Haibun for a footprint

    Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: An achievement worth celebrating, that giant step, the impossible dream realised. Yet closer to my heart is that first step on the trail of tears, the bamboo raft setting out across the world ocean of a flat earth, the hundred mile walk across a desert carrying a sick child,…

  • Today’s Haiku (July 20, 2019)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 高気圧居座つてゐる房バナナ　　すずきみのる kôkiatsu isuwatteiru fusa banana             high air pressure             lingers             a bunch of bananas                                                             Minoru Suzuki from “Shûkan Haiku” (“Haiku Weekly”) #393 11/2/2014  Issue, http://weekly-haiku.blogspot.com