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 […]
Playing Rock-Paper-Scissor to see which of us would drive the rent-a-car. After a flight to Denver from New York, during which we drank Heineken after Heinekan. Driving over switchbacks through the Rockies. At night. With an squeaky-breaked 18-wheeler behind us. Getting knocked into the frigid Animus River in […]
If you are a wayfarer, you follow the Way. It is as simple, and as difficult, as that. Did you think it would be complicated? or easy? running brook the rocks within eroded smooth over time phenomena on the path: obstacle, or stepping stone? for 8th August 2020 […]
Thump! A branch fell from the maple beside the deck. It struck the lawn a foot away from the fire pit. One whole branch broke into three pieces and several shards of bark. There were no leaves on the branch. Black rot exude throughout, and from the stump […]
Not the way. Whatever is not the way soon ends… Laoxi, from Lao-Tzu: A Book about the Way and the power of the Way, Ursula K. Le Guin Are we sure? We have walked this road for a long time. Footstep after footstep across the soft earth of […]
Husband, Father, Writer, Teacher. American Haijin. Because Haikai matters!
Frank J. Tassone 