Frank J. Tassone

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  • Conflicting Silence: A #TankaTuesday (7/31/18) #TankaProse

      The sun tries to break through. The clouds that gathered will not scatter. A temperature more consistent with spring than summer holds steady. It was perfect weather to repair the paver stones on the front stoop, or write outside all morning. I did neither, becoming lost in folly on the internet.   And so…

  • Triune Journeys: a #writephoto #haibun

      It could be a path between fields in the backcountry of Portugal’s Trans os Montes. Or a trail across the frontier between Mexico and the American Southwest. Or a dirt road in a high, dry summer somewhere in mountains lying outside the Temperate zone.   Perhaps I walk the path to inspect inherited land.…

  • #SilentSunday (7/29/18)

    A rest from #haiku See you tomorrow!

  • Portugal Travel Notes #7 (7/11/18)

    We began the family trip phase of our vacation yesterday with a welcome dinner at my sister-in-law Maria Do Carma’s house. Mira’s oldest brother, ‘Cico and his wife, Aliza, as well as her second-oldest brother, Armindo. Dinner included freshly barbequed steaks, pork ribs, rice and potatoes, fresh garden salad, and homemade red table wine. These…

  • Portugal Travel Notes #6 (7/10/18):

    Mira and I at the castle in Sortelha   The AC didn’t work. We switched to new rooms around 3:00 in the morning. The hotel didn’t charge us for three rooms, of course.   morning sun Another yawn at breakfast   Belmont. A village that boasts an historic Jewish community, with roots preceding the expulsion…

  • Ocean City, Maryland Chronicle, Day 2: July 5, 2014: an .@ImageCurve #haibun

    early rise first aroma of fresh-brewed coffee early beach arrival digging deep into loose sand to plant our umbrella the rattle of the chain reminds me to mind the wind searing sun roar of an incoming surf so cold to the touch step by step, his hand in mine until my face hits the sand…

  • Portugal Travel Notes #5 (7/9)

    Frank and I at a castle in Monsanto We finish our visit to Evora at the Cathedral. Beautiful sights atop the apex of the city. cathedral bells the silence under vault ceilings All of us on the roof of Evora Cathedral Next up, the mountain village winner of the coveted “most Portuguese village in Portugal”:…

  • Portugal Travel Notes (7/18/18): Interlude

    How did I wake up for the third morning in the Hotel Mayorazgo in Madrid, Spain? Well, it’s an interesting story. One that I will soon explain. Our trip has been a bustling one. That’s why I haven’t kept up my Travel Notes as consistently as I had hoped. No matter. I will soon get…