I spent 14 years exploring this fire triangle between my weakness, Bond’s strength, all that beauty, and the money running under it all. Clarity came when I let another human into the poem. I’ve heard this form called Twin Cinema. I appreciate the shape for its ability to illuminate multiple overlapping stories—and for the revealing revision process required by reading the poem three different directions.

c3 Crew is an educator, parent, and downtime mender. His debut chapbook, The 8 Ancient Geek Words for Love, forthcoming from Bottlecap Press, further chronicles his excessive emotional involvement with fictional characters. He lives in Seattle with his family, wild bunnies, wilder blackberry, and an un-wild number of hats.

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