Five means to meet my prey: Sight. Not my finest sense, but few match my eyes in the pitch black of a nightime jungle canopy. The slightest trace of light is all I need to make out my quarry. In spite of their vain efforts at camaflage! Hearing. […]
Relaxing into Another Weekend Mira hands me a full glass of Chianti. “Happy Friday!” We clank glasses as we toast. I take my first sip. Dark wood taste explodes on my tongue. I lie back on the chaise and open Merton. Smooth jazz plays again on […]
Happy to appear in The Haiku Foundation’s EarthRise Rolling Haiku Collaboration 2018! breaking dawn a robin sings harmony with the wind chime (P.37) Thank you, Jim Kacian, and the editorial team at The Haiku Foundation!
4/26/18: swaying locus the #pocketpoem I learn by heart #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #GloPoWriMo2018 #NaPoWriMo2018 26/30
Photo by Henry Be on Unsplash “On a hot, summer night: would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses?” –Meatloaf Warning: Do not awaken my favorite vice. For lust will pulsate through my trembling arteries with every quickened beat of a suddenly hungry heart. […]
Husband, Father, Writer, Teacher. American Haijin. Because Haikai matters!
Frank J. Tassone 