Frank J. Tassone

Tag: prosery

  • Enshadowed Illumination: A #Prosery #AmericanSentence #haibun

    You weren’t supposed to know. Our adoptive parents received a business letter with a mistake, one that costs lawyers their livelihoods: my name “Jamie.” We shared one life from that moment: you, ever in the clear light of day; I, always in the shadows. Your life was my could-have-been. You, with your second-birth-certificate name, usurped…

  • A Virgin’s sorrow: a #Prosery #AmericanSentence #haibun

    There are so many goodbyes. I watched the last rains of the monsoon emerse themselves in me. The clouds that bore them dispersed in whispers of seasonal wind. It will be a year before new ones return. Another family arrives. They galavant along my shores, take their photos, and then leave me, like all the…

  • A Grief Reobserved: a #Prosery #AmericanSentence #haibun

    We found out that our friend and colleague, Terry Richmond, died while vacationing in the Dominican Republic. The news came right before we began the 2018-2019 school year. Shocked with grief, our school came together, organizing a memorial during the first week, and meeting his mother. Her steadfast faith and grace inspired us, even as…