Frank J. Tassone

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  • PSA (2/2/21): When the Position needs Tending

    Busy Day. Another grade deadline met, at a great price. Another semester of classes begins tomorrow. That means the digital heavy-lifting happened today. I hope to return with more haikai tomorrow. Expect me when you see me! Labor pains… who knew a sofa was so tempting?

  • Crossroad of Destiny: a #tankaprose

    David Attenborough has spent his life dedicated to the natural world. He recently finished narrating Our Planet, a Netflix nature documentary series. In a follow-up to the series, he demonstrates our two possible futures. The first is a consequence of continuing our unsustainable, global lifestyle. Oceans increase in acidity. Polar caps melt, as coastal areas…

  • #SilentSunday (1/17/21)

    A rest from #haiku See you tomorrow!

  • Playing Favorites: a #TankaProse

    How can I choose a favorite? Would it be the one where my pivot line hit the sweet spot? Would it be the part of my first published tanka-prose? Or the first published tanka, ever? Or is it the one in which I most clearly discern that small, still voice? Althoughthe wind and waterinspirethere comes…

  • Fatigue

    The sandpaper-rubbed-raw sensation across my arms. The ache in the left knee and right rotor-cuff. The weariness in muscles that runs deep to the bones. The sighing whistfulness of seeing only two sets of Christmas lights still on, when one of them is mine. The conviction of caving to the craving that covers what I…

  • #SilentSaturday (1/2/21)

    A rest from #haiku See you tomorrow!

  • 2020 Blogging Year in Review

    We survived a traumatic year. And not all of us made it. Nevertheless, and even despite an Autumn of writer’s block, I managed to edge last year’s total views. The #Haikai Challenge remains popular, even with a ten-week gap! That is all because of you. Thank you for your continued support! Thank you for saying…

  • Yielding Light: a tiny #tankaprose

    At last: Christmas lights, under a Cold Moon. all the ways we disappoint ourselves swept aside by that sustaining Love, that irresistable force for my own #Haikai Challenge!