“Mary, full of grace,” so did the angel proclaim But what victory did you contemplate gazing upon the milky way? Is there a moment more sublime? Lao Tzu counseled those troubled at heart, whom thought the universe agitated, to look out at the stars. I followed his […]
By Arturo Mann (User:Feralaas) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons I was born from the remnants of stars. The hydrogen that fuels their fires twice forms me, along with the oxygen through which all energy finds release. So abundantly have I grown from that first molecule that I […]
“It is better to light a candle then curse the darkness.” —Chinese proverb I understand, Sylvia. If we’re honest with ourselves, we’ll recognize the blackness within. How it envelops us like a night sky at Mohican Center, far from firelight, where the crunch of gravel under […]
Photo by Henry Be on Unsplash “On a hot, summer night: would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses?” –Meatloaf Warning: Do not awaken my favorite vice. For lust will pulsate through my trembling arteries with every quickened beat of a suddenly hungry heart. […]
sunset a handful of years left in my career journeys across American roads, rivers of Europe far from the long-ago rooms filled with late-night screams and tears twilight holding hands we greet the stars Photo by Peter Oswald on Unsplash for Poets United–Midweek […]
Husband, Father, Writer, Teacher. American Haijin. Because Haikai matters!
Frank J. Tassone 