Submissions by Smith, Alan Louis ( 15 texts )

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Texts

• To you, seductive woman-child; title: "Francis Poulenc’s Thank-you Note to Louise de Vilmorin"
• If only you would smile every now and then… Then… then; title: "Wenn du nur zuweilen lächelst"
• There are many types of blindness. Some cannot see; title: "To my Beloved Narcissist"
• Did you know that you were dying?; title: "To My Dying Father, Fifty-six Years Later"
• When we were boys; title: "Training wheels"
• When I write; title: "Puppies on the Other Side of the Door"
• Looking out, looking in; title: "Heart windows"
• Colored glass; title: "Kaleidoscope"
• How did they know; title: "Lapiz lazuli"
• I sing you to sleep; title: "I sing you to sleep - Lullaby"
• When you carry me to the stars; title: "When you carry me to the stars"
• Baudelaire’s invalid flowers, scented with opium; title: "Baudelaire’s invalid flowers"
• If every ear were a trumpet; title: "If every ear (Mondnacht)"
• Some enchanted evening broidered with stars; title: "Some enchanted evening"
• Là ci darem la mano

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