Strange Sorrow: my latest .@ImageCurve #Haibun

backyard with fire pit and chairs at dusk

Lessons prepared. Other work will wait.

I enjoy the rest of a relaxing day with the family: football, phone calls, the great outdoors. Even Syfy!

Still, an uneasiness arises, like the phantom prick of a splinter removed from an old callous. I gave up YABC. It’s a deliverance, but it’s also a loss. Six years! Then I think of Susan, who told me not to leave her, not to do that to her.

The very thing I did, that I had to. For myself.

Sunday night
another sigh
as crickets sing

Photo by Shaun Montero

first published in Image Curve, March 12, 2020

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13 responses to “Strange Sorrow: my latest .@ImageCurve #Haibun”

  1. Frank Hubeny Avatar

    Whatever YABC is I can sense the tension and guilt involved in making the choice to leave it.

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    1. Frank J. Tassone Avatar

      Thanks, Frank! 🙂 YABC is a night high school option for students that haven’t graduated in 4 years.

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  2. msjadeli Avatar

    Crickets sing is clever. Six years of public service is nothing to sneeze at.

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  3. rothpoetry Avatar

    Very unsettling times! But, the crickets still sing… Well done Frank. Be safe!

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  4. Stine Writing Avatar

    I like the part that you did what you had to do – for you! Like Frank Hubeny, I don’t know what YABC is but whatever it is, you show strength through this poem.

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  5. Grace Avatar

    Endings are also beginnings! Good luck on the next journey.

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  6. memadtwo Avatar

    Grace is right. It’s hard to let go, even when necessary. But you need to make room for what comes next. (K)

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  7. whippetwisdom Avatar

    You’ve captured the mixed feelings of leaving somewhere you’ve put so much of yourself into very well Frank and, however difficult such a step can be, it sounds as if it’s for the best. Wishing you well on your onward journey 🙂🍀

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  8. kim881 Avatar

    I’m not sure what YABC is either, Frank, but your haibun reflects the feeling I had when I retired from teaching – sometimes, we just have to do things for ourselves. I like the way you capture the feeling of uneasiness in the ‘phantom prick of a splinter removed from an old callous’.

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    1. Frank J. Tassone Avatar

      Thanks, Kim! 🙂 YABC is a night high school option for students that haven’t graduated in 4 years.

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  9. Misky Avatar

    And here’s to a wondrous new beginning for you.

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    1. Frank J. Tassone Avatar

      Thanks! Indeed, it had been. I write my haibun in the present tense; the situation described happened a few years ago.

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  10. Björn Rudberg (brudberg) Avatar

    I do wonder who Susan was … sometimes things have to come to an end.

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