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Fifteen Sexual Spaces Recalled
An Inventory
Toni Schlesinger
Tuesday, February 6th 2001
Third cousin's pickup truck, road to Selma, Alabama (front seat)Cabin, cruise ship, China Sea (framed print on wall: Fragonard's Girl on a Swing; toothpaste from Thailand in bathroom)
Pale green motel cabin, Wisconsin (Davy Crockett hat on night table)
Apartment near Uffizi, Florence, stone walls (Catch-22 on shelf)
House with dark wood trim, Spokane, Washington (near Hostess Twinkie factory; they make them in pairs)
Bedroom, blue ceiling with stars (made by dipping the eraser end of a pencil in phosphorescent paint)
Snowbank, Indiana Dunes, shore of Lake Michigan (winter coats)
Hay field, Wisconsin (on pink-and-orange-wool Braniff Airlines blanket)
Brown bedroom, brown chest of drawers (one drawer full of brown socks)
Early American couch, newspaper office
Beach, Martinique (dinner menu at hotel featured a dessert called "Bananas in a Dark Room"—mistranslation of rum)
Rooftop under tree, sound of leaves moving in wind
Sand and rocks, Mediterranean Sea: Agios Nicholias, Crete; also Haifa
Kitchen counter, Chicago (lunch: pasta and a mango)
A room, New York City, clock ticking
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