Frank J. Tassone

Tag: photo

  • Mindful Moongazing

    There is a story of a thief and a zen master. The thief breaks into the master’s home to rob him, only to discover that the master owns nothing. Seeing the thief has worked hard for nothing, the zen master gives the thief the clothes off his back. After the perplexed thief departs, the naked…

  • Lunch—deferred: an @ImageCurve #haibun

    All he needed to do was print his answers. But when he plugged his Alpha Smart into the printer and keyed the sequence to print, the device failed. We waited—in vain—for help from Astor’s Tech support, a CUNY intern in over his head. I scribed his answers and then walked him to class. All I…

  • A Snapshot of Bicycling around Bruges: an .@ImageCurve #haibun

    I can’t remember how I met them. Or their names. They were college students abroad, like me. We rented bikes, toured the city and surrounding countryside. We visited the city square first, where the clocktower punctured the sky. Then we rode through narrow, winding streets until we reached open country—and a road lined with Cypress…

  • Nineteen Years Later: a 9/11 Commemorative #tankaprose

    Say their names. Nineteen years later, the pain still strikes deep. The memorial pools in the footprints of the fallen Twin Towers attract selfie-taking tourists. The names engraved in the marble counters that frame the pools appear forgotten. They aren’t Say their names. Feel the shearing of scar tissue on the hearts, as fresh grief…

  • #SilentSaturday (9/12/20)

    A rest from #haiku See you tomorrow!

  • Brooms Out Back: an .@ImageCurve #Haibun

    The broom rests against the vinyl siding adjacent to the storm door. Its yellow bristles scatter out like unkempt hair from one side. A black foam guard overlays a gray plastic staff. Mira steps outside, chattering with her sister overseas. She sweeps curled, yellowing maple leaves on-handed as she converses about God-knows-what in Portuguese. Even…

  • #SilentSaturday (9/5/20)

    A rest from #haiku See you tomorrow!

  • Into and Out of: an .@ImageCurve #Haibun

    A moth emerges from the darkness outside. A touch on glass, a blurring of wings and it returns. Flying through a reflection of the kitchen, as though it made it inside. fallen leaves on the deck brightening sky Photo by Max Kleinen first published in Image Curve, August 27, 2020 for dVerse Poets’ Open Link Night…