We arrive at our niece’s house for her daughter’s 3rd birthday party—early. Mira wants to “hug the babies”—our newborn great niece and nephew, both of whom will be there. She had hoped to have them to herself. When we pull up to the house, however, a Nissan Altima […]
I’m happy to report that today Poet’s Salon has published my Tanka-Prose “Up There” as part of its collection of the same name! Thank you, Kath Abela Wilson, for your consideration! Frank Tassone Up There Breathing hard. Heart racing like never before. I lean against a pine. The […]
Quarter past midnight. The last remnant of relaxing chamomile leaves a tangy, bitter aftertaste. “Zigzagging to the light” plays across my mind as I put down an extended meditation on mentorship in Robert McDowell’s Poetry as a Spiritual Practice. I’ll face the bed again. And hope to get […]
We step through the second door, entering the arbortorium, and feel saturated by semi-tropical heat and humidity! Large palms and other representative flora grow out of the center. The palm branches shelter the pathways. All around are the butterflies. A large one with brown, splotchy wings lands on […]
Happy to have one of my haiku published in “A Moment’s Longing,” the Haiku Society of America’s Members’ Anthology 2019. In case anyone has trouble seeing the photo: winter sun a shallow understanding of the problem “A Moment’s Longing” p. 65, HSA Members’ Anthology 2019, Tayna McDonald, Editor […]
Husband, Father, Writer, Teacher. American Haijin. Because Haikai matters!
