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#Throwdown Thursday 12/14/17: December 14, 2012…#haibun #haiku #poetry
My father died of pancreatic cancer on this day in 2011. A year later, the Sandy Hook shooting occurred. These two traumatic events have intertwined in my life in ways that I can’t even imagine. The following haibun bears witness to that first anniversary of Dad’s death, and that tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary. December…
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#Wayback Wednesday: A Celebration #poetry #haibun #poetsunited #imagecurve
Unexpected Feast All thirty of us sit at folding tables covered in plastic in Oscar’s hot, unfinished basement. Pipes emerge from the boiler in the back corner. One of them runs the length of the basement over our heads. We eat Mariscara—a paella with lobster in a red sauce sans the rice; barbequed…
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Mowing and Remembrance…a #haibun for #dversepoets
The old Yard Machine awaits. Dried out grass fills every groove in its tires. The hood, which snapped off its hinges snagging a low-hanging branch, loosely rests over the motor. One of its blades must surely have bent by now. As I muster the will to use it, I imagine Dad riding it once more.…
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A Culinary Marvel: An excerpt from Smuggler’s Notch Travelogue, Part III…#haibun #haiku #poetry #dversepoets
(yelp.com) Peeling red paint on weather-worn siding of a glorified barn—not an auspicious first impression! We wait to be seated. The décor is both trendy and quaint: Dim light, dark paneling, streamers with various-colored lights, Sombreros on one wall. Seated at last, we order. My enchilada is as good as any I had at home.…
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#Freestyle Friday 12/8/17 #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #HSA
Splattered raindrops another nebulizer treatment Full of Moonlight Haiku Society of America 2016 Members’ Anthology
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#throwdown Thursday 12/7/17…My latest is up: First Stiches – #Haibun #haiku #poetry | Image Curve
First Stiches BY FRANK J. TASSONE · 7TH DECEMBER 2017 Haibun I run in the day care center’s playground. Somewhere past the slide, the jungle gym and some swings, I slip and fall. My left hand thumps hard against the ground. I stand up. The hand throbs. I turn it over. Blood covers my palm…
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#Publication Alert (12/2/17): Mowing and Remembrance appears in Haibun Today! #haibun #haiku #poetry
Happy that my haibun Mowing and Remembrance appears in Haibun Today, December 2017, v.11, n.4! Mowing and Remembrance The old Yard Machine awaits. Dried out grass fills every groove in its tires. The hood, which snapped off its hinges snagging a low-hanging branch, loosely rests over the motor. One of its blades must surely…
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#Free-styleFriday (12/1/17): my Failed Haiku 24 premier…#senryu #haiku #poetry
Did I mention how pleased I am to appear in Failed Haiku 24? October morning the superb timing of a failing furnace shots fired a “dear diary” entry left blank
Frank J. Tassone 