Tag: publication
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Writing Counterpoints: an .@ImageCurve #haibun
More than twenty years ago, I sat on a faded beige, chrysanthemum-patterned couch in New City’s first expresso bar, Caffeine Jones. Sipping hot cappuccino, I channeled my angst though Natalie Goldberg’s write-practice drills, filling every line of a college-ruled notebook. Alone. Today, I sit on our chair-ottoman in the comfort of our living room. Mira…
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#publication Alert: A Sense of Place: CITY SIDEWALK – hearing
Happy to appear once again in A Sense of Place: CITY SIDEWALK – hearing for this one: fire drill… the noise of three-thousand teens on the sidewalks — Read on www.thehaikufoundation.org/2018/12/05/a-sense-of-place-city-sidewalk-hearing/
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November 11, 2012: a #TBT .@ImageCurve #Haibun
We make it to the Veteran’s Day concert at West Point. The storied USMA band plays melodies dating back to “Chester”, the most popular drum and piper tune during the Revolutionary War. The music charms, the slideshow entertains, but where are the Jazz Knights? Then I hear Big Band music from the World War II…
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#Publication Alert (11/28/18) A Sense of Place: CITY SIDEWALK – sight
Pleased to once again appear in the Haiku Foundation’s A Sense of Place! Pelham Parkway House… stuck wads of dried gum on the sidewalk — Read on www.thehaikufoundation.org/2018/11/28/a-sense-of-place-city-sidewalk-sight/
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Awaiting the Doctor: An .@ImageCurve #haibun
Conversations carry on outside the grain-laminate door. Papers rustle. A phone rings with a staccato four-beat tone in the key of “E”. Lights hum. I sit in the last examination room on the left. A middle-aged Filipina in sky-blue scrubs measures my blood pressure. Her eyes widen. “Let me take it on your…
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Thanksgiving 2013: An Excerpt from Autumnal Trilogy: 3 Haibun – an .@ImageCurve #Haibun
Thanksgiving, 2013 The first crisis: the VCR won’t record the Macy’s Day Parade. All repair attempts fail. Mom and I brace for Robert’s outburst of anger and disappointment. It never comes. a sunlit lawn parade balloons overshadow Sixth Avenue Robert helps me bring up tables during commercials. Frankie is supposed to act as a “scout”…
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Thanksgiving Weekend 2012: an .@ImageCurve #haibun
Thanksgiving Day, November 22nd Another wave of sickness strikes. I’m on my knees over the master bath toilet. Orange-and-brown bile fills water and stains the porcelain rim, along with the painted walls and freshly-washed tile. Blackness. A slow awakening, questions. How did I get here? Why did I wake up in Dad’s bed? All I…
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An Awaited Turn in the Weather: A #TBT #Haibun featuring my latest from .@ImageCurve
Ever experience a turn in the weather?
Frank J. Tassone 