Author: TEGD

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.

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Flat happy hills

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Kansas forces gather

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Knowing (you)

Ambivalence

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(Keep stacking)

Plan your dreams in advance.

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Zoonosis (2.0)

A mash up of the NYC quarantine + the series finale of Homeland.

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Romanticism

Post author By TEGD
Post date March 4, 2020
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A dark meditation in a safe place.

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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.

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A blue coated dove, a quaint robin

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Post date December 20, 2019
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For my mother and brother.

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If there are 2, there are 3

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Post date February 10, 2019
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Thousands of days

After seeing old friends.

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(the judge hurts)

I’ve been hanging onto this wily one for months.

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abecedarian no. 31

Started with “sparkle”.

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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)

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(abecedarian no.29)

Born out of “anything boiling”

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an incantation

This one borne out of a fear of death.

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response

Born around the words “a bully crowd” and Hillbilly Elegy.

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(abecedarian no. 26)

This one is about a boy.

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(abecedarian no. 25)

Born from the word “burden.”

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(abecedarian no. 24)

Borne from “death”.

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(abecedarian no. 23)

Born from the experience of adolescence.

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A boy

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Post date February 4, 2018
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For my son.

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Christine P.

For Christine P.

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Small

Post author By TEGD
Post date August 26, 2017
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My late husband took this photograph in Oaxaca in 2006. I marked it up.

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The uncaused cause

My favorite topic.

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On the popular and controversial topic of building a wall

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Post date April 9, 2017
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Washington, D.C. in 2017.

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Goodbye, Washington

I’m leaving DC after 20 years.

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The seam

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Post date February 2, 2017
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The seam between life and death is peculiar. I’m transfixed by it lately.

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The Abecedarian of Abecedarians

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Post date December 15, 2016
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My favorite abecedarian. It has lots of cheats.

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Elasticity

Life doesn’t break, it bends.

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A box

Post author By TEGD
Post date November 19, 2016
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For Karl.

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Trytopophobia

Doctor explaining death to his wife at a diner.

The edge of a hole is a dreadful angle.

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The watchers

Route 50 after Bud died.

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Sadism

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Post date November 5, 2016
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Blue truck

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Maquina lights

A night out with old friends.

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A character

A sketch

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Supplications

Life is messy but still worth it.

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Medieval

Post author By TEGD
Post date June 21, 2016
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This church door in Georgetown.

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Turbulence

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Post date May 23, 2016
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I get motion sickness.

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The clink

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Post date May 12, 2016
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Currency.

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Hungry

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Post date May 6, 2016
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I think you’ll get it.

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Abracadabra

Vitality not happiness is the opposite of depression.

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Fill in the blanks darkly

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Post date April 18, 2016
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Sometimes, I “fill in the blanks darkly.”

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A new springtime

An abecedarian centered around “cull.”

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Peacocked Grief

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Birds, come back

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High class entertainment

Or Danger

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Distraction and Duplicity

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Post date March 11, 2016
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Snake snake snake

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The beckoning call of sleep

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Post date February 18, 2016
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There goes sleep: I’ll take that train.

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To laugh

Sometimes I see colors.

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The old man

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A hand descends

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Killers / Vigilantes / Super Heroes

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Post date February 2, 2016
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Seeing red wings sprout

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Re-knitting

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Deep blue

A death.

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Bricks and mortar

To Karl.

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I can

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Post date December 18, 2015
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Limbs strewn like branches from a tree after a storm.

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You ( )

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Post date December 10, 2015
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A fresh death.

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Vessels

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Post date November 18, 2015
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Before.

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Walking

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Post date November 11, 2015
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One of my favorites.

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Ascent

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Post date October 28, 2015
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For AD.

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Frame Jumper

Inspired by AB.

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