Autumn Saturday the joy of drafting this week’s IEPs (Author’s note: an IEP stands for individual education program, a mandatory document (of at least 10-15 pages) for each student that receives special education services in the US.)
Christmas truce cigarettes exchanged across No Man’s Land first published in Earthrise Rolling Haiku Collaboration(p. 39), THF, 2017
Frank Hubeny at dVerse challenges us to write a Chaucerian stanza or Rhyme Royal. This form employs a rhyme scheme of ababbcc, written in (usually) iambic pentameter metric lines (seven) in up to three stanzas. But I write haikai. What to do? Go poetic in the prose-poem, and […]
Renewed Intimacy My fingers, running gently up and down your bare back. Your gentle moan, as I rub away tension in the tightest muscles surrounding your lower lumbar. Our lips meeting in our kiss. Our embrace. parting clouds remembering the first time First published in Image Curve, October […]
About that Night What was it about you? Was it the look in your eyes? The way you kept your curly hair like you just rolled out of bed? Or was it simply circumstances? Me, with a girlfriend living outside Philadelphia whom I hadn’t seen since […]
Husband, Father, Writer, Teacher. American Haijin. Because Haikai matters!
Frank J. Tassone 