Frank J. Tassone

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  • PSA (7/9/20): The Return

    Twilight deepens. We arrived home before 8 EST. A strange happenstance: after I left my phone alone for a day, it recovered! Perhaps the Spirit decided I needed a complete rest! Expect my return tomorrow. Until then, stay healthy and safe! fireflies competing with drag racers frogs croaking

  • PSA (7/8/20): iPhone woes

    I’m away. The iPhone terminally malfunctions. Therefore, expect me when you see me until my return. Murphy’s Law the ever-dependable unexpected

  • Cape Cod 2020 Travel Notes, 6/6/20

    We rose at seven. Frank’s iPhone still doesn’t work. Mine needed a full reset. But we manage to Las the car and leave by 8:45. On the road across three states our journey The near five-hour trip to North Truro in Cape Cod happens without complications. After a call to our property manager, we gain…

  • A Domestic Experience: A #Tanka-Prose

    The neighborhood Fourth of July fireworks ceased sometime during the night. Now, the only sounds are the intermittent birdsongs, the rustle of breeze-tussled leaves, and the hum of a dryer exhaust. The sun approaches zenith. The last clouds dispersed. Sunlight-bathed blades of grass look a radiant green. The temperature and humidity continue to rise. Yesterday,…

  • #SilentSaturday (7/4/20)

    a rest from #haiku Happy Independence Day! See you tomorrow!

  • Captain’s Last Stand: my latest .@ImageCurve #haibun

    I bring Frankie out of his bedroom. It is 10:00PM, but he was not asleep. The Yankees play the Orioles in the Bronx. It is the top of the ninth inning; the home team has a three-run lead. A fitting way for Derek Jeter, the Yankee Captain, to end his last home game. closer’s warm…

  • Course Correction: a #haibun

    Not the way. Whatever is not the way soon ends… Laoxi, from Lao-Tzu: A Book about the Way and the power of the Way, Ursula K. Le Guin Are we sure? We have walked this road for a long time. Footstep after footstep across the soft earth of community, and the hard pavement of individualism.…

  • Minnewaska March (an #Encore #Haibun)

    We hit the road for Minnewaska State Park Preserve, in the Shawangunk Mountains outside New Paltz, NY, by 7:30. Arriving just before 9:00, we join the fortunate, 50%-of-park-capacity visitors admitted before the gates close. Of course, since park personnel direct us to the Awosting Falls parking lot, we face a mile ascent up the Sunset…