• shorts
    • crumbsnatcher (short film)
    • the wandering eye (une chienne andalouse)
  • talking to people about things they love
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    • ballade d'une francophile
    • sonic sonnet
    • dialogue in verse between god and man
    • i will sleep until i wake up
    • the downside for poets who toil in the darkness
    • the death & rebirth of empathy
    • two herons
    • a light drizzle
    • the lesson in grasses
    • says simon cowell (a villanelle)
    • five small children, painted well
    • that's rich
    • after lear
    • dietary restrictions
    • put the babies back to work
    • the cynic’s valentine
    • a poetry limerick
  • stories
    • lost articles
    • alexander in midair
    • wish list
    • melvin the destroyer
    • great aunt bertha fussbudget's mirthless legacy: part one
    • one rainy night, soon
    • yours truly, the canary
    • last supper at the pie emporium
  • visions
  • other words (blog posts)
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agnes bookbinder

non sequitur
  • shorts
    • crumbsnatcher (short film)
    • the wandering eye (une chienne andalouse)
  • talking to people about things they love
  • poems
    • cedar
    • ballade d'une francophile
    • sonic sonnet
    • dialogue in verse between god and man
    • i will sleep until i wake up
    • the downside for poets who toil in the darkness
    • the death & rebirth of empathy
    • two herons
    • a light drizzle
    • the lesson in grasses
    • says simon cowell (a villanelle)
    • five small children, painted well
    • that's rich
    • after lear
    • dietary restrictions
    • put the babies back to work
    • the cynic’s valentine
    • a poetry limerick
  • stories
    • lost articles
    • alexander in midair
    • wish list
    • melvin the destroyer
    • great aunt bertha fussbudget's mirthless legacy: part one
    • one rainy night, soon
    • yours truly, the canary
    • last supper at the pie emporium
  • visions
  • other words (blog posts)
  • things & stuff (blogs 2016-2018)
  • bio

for alan, aged five hours

April 25, 2018 in writing

Young Alan T., what would you be

If you had grown? Become a man?

If you'd survived your infancy?

For you, there was another plan

(A plan which none can understand).

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