Frank J. Tassone

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  • #Tanka Tuesday (for a #WaybackWednesday) 5/2/18: Witness a Wild Thing

     [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons   The Wild has always called me. Out of the depths of a child’s imagination came marching a parade of derivative characters. Then the moments of rapt attention: a tricyle turned upside down:   I turned over my rusty red tricycle in the mud room. Then I spun the wheels.…

  • Vive La Geekdom!

      The Friday night audience at the Lafayette filled the one-screen, National Historic Landmark theater nearly to capacity! We cheered when the curtain opened. We applauded when our favorite Avengers arrived on-screen. We laughed at every gagline, gasped at every surprise, and cried in shock and disbelief as some of our favorites… (sniff! sniff!)…  …

  • Closure: a #SenryuSaturday (4/28/18) #PostCardProse #haibun

      Still in the Big Apple’s Backyard. You’re living the dream in the Windy City. We joked around about the liaison we would have to have, were we meet again after marrying someone else. Such are the dreams and pillow-talk of college lovers. I’m sure you’ll agree that we’re both too happy living our lives…

  • For the Hunt: A Predator’s #Haibun

    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. The faintest crack of a distant twig.…

  • #ThrowbackThursday (4/26/18): my latest .@ImageCurve #haibun

    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 that best of Christmas gifts: a Motorola…

  • A Vernaltide Warning of my Vices and Virtues: A #TankaTuesday (on a Wednesday) #TankaProse

    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. Do not let me imagine all of…

  • Gather Foolish Minds: A #Quadrille #haibun

      Gather, foolish minds! Never mind the fool saying, “Mind over matter. I don’t mind, so you don’t matter.”   Gather, you poets! Enscribe in fresh language that madness we call wisdom.   So gathered, we foolish minds shame the wise!     fired feast our dionesian wine awaits     for dVerse Poets Quadrille…

  • #SilentSunday (4/22/18)

    A rest from #haiku     See you tomorrow!