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Monthly Archives: March 2007

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From Beneath an Arched Lamp in an Otherwise Dark Room

A knee across my ankle and hand grasping my foot trap me on my back on the sofa. For fear of waking her, I cannot move or shift.
My leg jerks in response. But still she sleeps, undisturbed.
Outside our door, dogs are barking. The clock ticks every second, and Jennifer exhales every five.

From a Chair Behind a Desk

Three ceiling lights hold six u-shaped fluorescent bulbs, each two feet in length. The ceiling’s tiles are off-white speckled with gray, and the walls are a light shade of yellow, which magnifies the color of the light, interrupted only by the whites and blues of two LCD panels. Air pushed through two ceiling vents hums [...]

From a Rocking Chair in the Library

The diffused sunlight reflected by the untrampled snow is blinding. Only the paved pathways have been cleared. The students honor this. Or the pathways’ planner understood their instincts.
This is a serious place. No snowmen. Vertebrae-crushing backpacks. Brisk and determined paces.
But like flowers, we all turn to face the light, squinting.

Hir Confusion Is Entirely Correct

From “A Politically Correct Lexicon”:
Hir (hirs): Gender neutral for him and her. At Wesleyan University, incoming freshmen are instructed to use gender-neutral pronouns in campus correspondence. As one person wrote on the university’s online Anonymous Confession Board, “I am usually attracted only to people of hir original gender, rather than hir intended gender. As such, [...]