Tag: publication
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#Throwdown Thursday (4/5/18): Losing Grandma…my latest #haibun on .@ImageCurve
Losing Grandma I don’t remember Grandma’s death. The only flash of memory is a snippet of conversation, and a flash of grief and concern on Mom’s face. My most clear memory of Grandma: she would squeeze my cheeks between her index and middle fingers and then twist. Simultaneously, her Calabrais face in mine,…
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#Publication Alert: Hoeing Grief appears in Cattails!
Pleased that my haibun Hoeing Grief appears in Cattails, April 2018! Hoeing Grief By Frank J. Tassone, USA Dad places Robert on one part of our terrace garden and me, on the other. This way we can’t accidentally hurt each other. Robert rakes while I tear at the ground with a hoe.…
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First Easter After Dad: an .@ImageCurve #haibun…#napowrimo2018 #npm
First Easter after Dad Chocolate-centered pastries; strawberry shortcake; sliced pineapple, melon and cantaloupe: all on platters spread across the row of tables. A pitcher of homemade red wine sits near empty glasses. Mira and her sisters rest on the sofas in the adjoining living room. My brothers-in-law linger at the dining room…
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#Throwdown Thursday (3/29/18): my latest #haibun “A Montebello School Commencement” is up on .@ImageCurve
A Montebello School Commencement Frankie and I are home. He’ll soon put on a light-green, button-down collared shirt, a pair of Khakis and dockers. We’ll drop him off at the middle school and take our seats in the auditorium. For his promotion ceremony. I blinked, and my son turned eleven and graduated elementary…
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#Wayback Wednesday (3/28/18): Dreaming Dad from Haibun Today
Dreaming Dad You come with us to a picnic ground. Scattered cottonball clouds float across a blue summer sky. Lush, green grass feels soft under our feet. Maple and birch trees enclose the area. We sit at a weathered picnic table splintering with age. You wear your cream short-sleeve shirt, khaki shorts and those worn,…
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Spring Suite: an .@ImageCurve #haibun collection
Prologue Spring morning a moment of grace in the sun winter-hardened soil yields the season’s first chutes Spring Suite, Part I: At the NJ Botanical Gardens The twin rows of apple trees define a path down the center of Skyland Manor’s Great Lawn. They won’t blossom until May. Many…
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#Throwdown Thursday (3/22/18): A Shattering Truth
A Shattering Truth BY FRANK J. TASSONE · 22ND MARCH 2018 You and Dad tried to conceive for twelve years before you decided to adopt. You told me that story often enough: how I grabbed your pinky when you visited candidate babies, and you knew I was the one. But what happened when Robert was born? He…
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#Wayback Wednesday (3/21/18): Flea Market…an .@ImageCurve #haibun
Flea Market BY FRANK J. TASSONE · 20TH NOVEMBER 2014 Haibun Poem A green mountain coffee sign stands in the aisle. Cotton T-shirts and three-quarter shirts with band and sports regalia logos hang on wracks or rest folded on tables inside many booths. Others held piles of DVDs and paperbacks. Then we find the statues. Sts. Michael,…
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