Everything I learned about gender as a child now makes me ill. The triangle torso of a woman on a restroom door like a caution sign. The false exclamation point invisible inside her. I do not want to be pressed against a pronoun, or to ever press a child against one. I want to be like the jungle frogs who can impregnate themselves, and then, I want to choose not to.
Sophie Klahr is the author of Two Open Doors In a Field ( Backwaters Press, 2023), and Meet Me Here At Dawn (YesYes Books). With Corey Zeller, she co-authored There is Only One Ghost in the World (FC2, 2023), winner of the Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest. Her work appears in publications such as The New Yorker and American Poetry Review. She teaches at UNC Chapel Hill.
