Author: TEGD
I write abecedarian sequences
Every foe gone
Belong(s)
Sandman
Yield
My highness
(No) lamentations
Time-space
Having/Halving
Blue Country
Glitter bonnets
All bounty
A family owned business
All she wants for Christmas is a family owned pizzeria. One she can pass down to her children. They’ll work there after school, if they want to. She’ll only employ friends and family. She’ll give employee discounts.
Flat happy hills
Kansas forces gather
Knowing (you)
Ambivalence
(Keep stacking)
Plan your dreams in advance.
Zoonosis (2.0)
A mash up of the NYC quarantine + the series finale of Homeland.
Romanticism

A dark meditation in a safe place.
Horses and Cars

This one was borne out of Peaky Blinders and the amazing time in history when horses outnumbered cars in cities and towns.
A blue coated dove, a quaint robin
For my mother and brother.
If there are 2, there are 3

Thousands of days

After seeing old friends.
(the judge hurts)
I’ve been hanging onto this wily one for months.
abecedarian no. 31
Started with “sparkle”.
abecedarian no. 30
An abecedarian sequence is, ideally, a 26-word poem, each word in alphabetical order. This one born out of “a burnt corpse” (A-B-C)
(abecedarian no.29)
Born out of “anything boiling”
an incantation
This one borne out of a fear of death.
response
Born around the words “a bully crowd” and Hillbilly Elegy.
(abecedarian no. 26)
This one is about a boy.
(abecedarian no. 25)
Born from the word “burden.”
(abecedarian no. 24)
Borne from “death”.
(abecedarian no. 23)
Born from the experience of adolescence.
A boy
For my son.
Christine P.
For Christine P.
Small

My late husband took this photograph in Oaxaca in 2006. I marked it up.
The uncaused cause

My favorite topic.

Washington, D.C. in 2017.
Goodbye, Washington

I’m leaving DC after 20 years.
The seam

The seam between life and death is peculiar. I’m transfixed by it lately.

My favorite abecedarian. It has lots of cheats.
Elasticity
Life doesn’t break, it bends.
A box

For Karl.
Trytopophobia

The edge of a hole is a dreadful angle.
The watchers

Route 50 after Bud died.
Sadism

Blue truck
Maquina lights

A night out with old friends.
A character

A sketch
Supplications

Life is messy but still worth it.
Medieval

This church door in Georgetown.
Turbulence

I get motion sickness.
The clink

Currency.
Hungry

I think you’ll get it.
Abracadabra

Vitality not happiness is the opposite of depression.
Fill in the blanks darkly
Sometimes, I “fill in the blanks darkly.”
A new springtime

An abecedarian centered around “cull.”
Peacocked Grief

Birds, come back

High class entertainment

Or Danger
Distraction and Duplicity

Snake snake snake

The beckoning call of sleep

There goes sleep: I’ll take that train.
To laugh

Sometimes I see colors.
The old man

A hand descends

Killers / Vigilantes / Super Heroes

Seeing red wings sprout
Re-knitting
Deep blue

A death.
Bricks and mortar

To Karl.
I can

Limbs strewn like branches from a tree after a storm.
You ( )

A fresh death.
Vessels

Before.
Walking

One of my favorites.
Ascent

For AD.
Frame Jumper

Inspired by AB.