Frank J. Tassone

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  • 4-8-17 My latest #npm2017 #napowrimo Meltdown – #Haibun #Poem | Image Curve – Read & Puplish

    Meltdown BY FRANK J. TASSONE · 8TH APRIL 2017   Haibun   Frankie pounds the brown, floral-print pillow on our Lazy Boy. He screams. Then utters a long series of unintelligible noises. His tear-swollen eyes soon turn red. He never gave us a permission slip to sign. Therefore, he will miss the fifth grade versus faculty basketball game.…

  • Country/City Contrasts #NPM17 #NaPoWriMo2017 #haibun #dversepoets

    A cloudless sky. A chorus of robins and sparrows marking their territory. Still, it’s too cold for Mira to air-dry her hair on the deck. Besides, we won’t have time to lay about at our leisure. Our great-niece Viviana will be Christened today. We will journey to the heart of Broadway in Yonkers, New York.…

  • Foolish Endeavors #NPM17 #haibun

    Two IEP drafts need to be finished. Every time I think about working on them, a terrible resistance arises. Frankie wakes up at ten–way too late for that pancake breakfast he promised to make. So why is he acting so surly? Two large nests sit in seperate bare Maples, awaiting their inhabitants. But this cold…

  • An Autumnal Trilogy: 3 Haibun – #Haibun #Poems #haiku #poetry

    First Staff Day ’13-’14 A hot and humid auditorium. Teachers from every school seated, talking. Some near an open window, some fanning themselves. Most sweating. Like me. The newest school’s principal, a woman who looked old enough to need a blue working card, instructs many of us to fill seats closer to the front. Nothing…