D E C E M B E R 1 9 9 7 ![]() TIRED SEXby Chana Bloch | |||||||||||||
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Trying to strike a match in a matchbook that has lain all winter under the woodpile: damp sulfur on sodden cardboard. I catch myself yawning. Through the window I watch that sparrow the cat keeps batting around. Like turning the pages of a book the teacher assigned -- You ought to read it, she said. It's great literature. Chana Bloch is the author of The Past Keeps Changing (1992) and a co-translator of The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai (1996). Copyright © 1997 by The Atlantic Monthly Company. All rights reserved. The Atlantic Monthly; December 1997; Tired Sex; Volume 280, No. 6; page 88. |
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