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
for dVerse Poets’ OpenLinkNight #262 (pubtended by Grace)
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Frank J. Tassone 
Whatever YABC is I can sense the tension and guilt involved in making the choice to leave it.
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Thanks, Frank! 🙂 YABC is a night high school option for students that haven’t graduated in 4 years.
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Crickets sing is clever. Six years of public service is nothing to sneeze at.
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Very unsettling times! But, the crickets still sing… Well done Frank. Be safe!
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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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Endings are also beginnings! Good luck on the next journey.
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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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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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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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Thanks, Kim! 🙂 YABC is a night high school option for students that haven’t graduated in 4 years.
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And here’s to a wondrous new beginning for you.
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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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I do wonder who Susan was … sometimes things have to come to an end.
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