Tag: dVerse
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Way-back Wednesday 8/9/17: …a grandmother the morning after… #haibun #haiku #poetry
The Morning After Her cup of Columbian Supremo cools atop of a crumpled copy of the Journal News, spread over the kitchen table like leaves across the lawn. She stands by the kitchen sink, inhales another drag on a half-smoked Marlboro, stares out the window, not seeing the cracked blacktop or the rust on the…
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Country/City Contrasts #NPM17 #NaPoWriMo2017 #haibun #dversepoets
A cloudless sky. A chorus of robins and sparrows marking their territory. Still, it’s too cold for Mira to air-dry her hair on the deck. Besides, we won’t have time to lay about at our leisure. Our great-niece Viviana will be Christened today. We will journey to the heart of Broadway in Yonkers, New York.…
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Foolish Endeavors #NPM17 #haibun
Two IEP drafts need to be finished. Every time I think about working on them, a terrible resistance arises. Frankie wakes up at ten–way too late for that pancake breakfast he promised to make. So why is he acting so surly? Two large nests sit in seperate bare Maples, awaiting their inhabitants. But this cold…
Frank J. Tassone 