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#Silent Sunday (4/8/18
A rest from #haiku. See you tomorrow!
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A Complementary Conversation
I am the lost one. You venture across your own ways, while I stumble in the dark. How will I know where to walk if you leave me alone? You have always left me alone. Here I am, crying dry tears and screaming in silence. Where are you? Why do you abandon me? …
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#Freestyle Friday (4/6/18): a little “Tai Chi Practice” courtesy of .@ImageCurve
Tai Chi Practice “White Crane Spreads its Wings” Sunlight rippling off the Ramapo River Deep breath in. During commencement, I raise soft, rounded arms. They ascend, roll and descend. Deep breath out. As I pivot and “roll the ball.” Empty, fill. Breathe in, breathe out. Brush knee left. Then the rest of the…
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A Natural History of My Holy Places
Photo by Matt Cannon on Unsplash The enclosed portch of our basement apartment in a three-family house. A tricycle turned upside-down. The hum of its spinning wheels, opening me… shimmering sunlight across a rippling lake The wooded path opens to a green hill with memorial stones. A paved road passes a waterfall, its roar reminding…
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#Throwdown Thursday (4/5/18): Losing Grandma…my latest #haibun on .@ImageCurve
Losing Grandma I don’t remember Grandma’s death. The only flash of memory is a snippet of conversation, and a flash of grief and concern on Mom’s face. My most clear memory of Grandma: she would squeeze my cheeks between her index and middle fingers and then twist. Simultaneously, her Calabrais face in mine,…
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#Silent Sunday (4/1/18)
A rest from #haiku Happy Easter! See you tomorrow.
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Silent Sunday (3/25/18)
A rest from #haiku See you Monday!
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#Throwdown Thursday (3/22/18): A Shattering Truth
A Shattering Truth BY FRANK J. TASSONE · 22ND MARCH 2018 You and Dad tried to conceive for twelve years before you decided to adopt. You told me that story often enough: how I grabbed your pinky when you visited candidate babies, and you knew I was the one. But what happened when Robert was born? He…
