It’s the beginning of January and in the middle of the night, when all is still except for the low chatter coming from the latest netflix episode from the latest series. One cat sleeps on my lap and one cat sleeps under my right arm on the couch, warm and dreaming of hunts in…
Category: haibun
dVerse — Haibun 95 — New Beginnings?
photo by Alex Nye Back in 2008, my then-boyfriend had gone on and on about the years he spent living in Santa Barbara, CA, to a point where I seriously thought about getting a job there and relocating. I watched the county human resources web site and applied for jobs I was qualified for. Sure…
dVerse — Haibun Monday 94 — Summer Storm
The afternoon was sunny but the sky was a different cast of yellow than usual. The shade of yellow that portends a storm, weak with an orange-y shade of green to it. All there was to do was wait. There in the distance, a deep rumbling, as a bear or a dinosaur might make when…
dVerse — Haibun Monday 93 — Ashes of the Dead
In time of war and unholy pogrom, the young boy’s loving parents left him in the care of the old woman who lived on the outskirts of town and raised chickens and a few meager vegetables. Until she died, sitting up, with her feet in a basin of water. He waited and waited for her…
dVerse — haibun — day schemes, moon dreams
As Autumn weather cools things down in the Northern hemisphere, woodpeckers get ravenous and attack the silent suet cakes with increased vigor. Unfortunately, their enthusiasm has been more keen than usual this year as they look for tasty snacks they imagine are hiding in the wood siding of the house. They may be doing…
Haikai Challenge #157: Autumn Equinox (Shunbun)
Autumn Equinox’ Color ClockBlue globe ticks a notchGreens splash to orange and redYellow heat turns down Equinox Set ChangeBlue mirrored ripplesOnce framed with green are now brownSwans swim a new pond Autumn HarvestHungry red squirrelPine nuts, sunflower seeds, pears Wrens eat fat spiders Images:orange and red leavesswansred squirrel Frank J. Tassone is…
dVerse OLN — Redemption
This tree had seen its fair share of misery long before lightning or disease disfigured it. It is unknown how old it was when Felt mansion was completed in 1928. It is known that within months of the mansion’s completion Mrs. Felt died in her bedroom not 50 feet away from the tree. It is…
