{"id":16932,"date":"2024-06-20T16:50:50","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T21:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/?p=16932"},"modified":"2024-06-21T10:16:45","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T15:16:45","slug":"overlapping-definitions-of-infinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/2024\/06\/20\/overlapping-definitions-of-infinity\/","title":{"rendered":"Overlapping Definitions of Infinity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong>Overlapping Definitions of Infinity<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Carol Dorf<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>__________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In childhood infinite time is waiting and waiting and waiting for something to happen \u2013 when reaching the moment of the dripping ice cream cone takes one forever two forevers three forevers more \u2013 while in adult life there is the infinity between deciding to quit a job and finding the next one so you can actually walk down those stairs carrying your box like you never were the kind of person who takes the elevator \u2013 or the time between knowing you\u2019re pregnant and having an actual child in the car seat listening to&nbsp;<em>Down By The Bay<\/em>&nbsp;on repeat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>__________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Carol Dorf <\/strong>is a Zoeglossia fellow, whose books include <em>Theory-Headed Dragon<\/em>. Their writing appears on the Poetry Foundation website, and in the journals that include <em>Pleiades, About Place, Cutthroat,The Museum of Americana, Exposition Review, Unlikely Stories, The Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, Scientific American,<\/em> and <em>Maintenant<\/em>. They are founding poetry editor of <em>Talking Writing<\/em>, and taught math in Berkeley USD. They have lead workshops in venues that include Berkeley City College\/Vista, conferences, community centers, and science museums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>__________<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/01\/boudin-logo-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To learn more about submitting your work to&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/boudin-submissions\/\">Boudin<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;or applying to McNeese State University\u2019s Creative Writing&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/mfa-application-submissions\/\">MFA program<\/a>, please visit Submissions for details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overlapping Definitions of Infinity Carol Dorf __________ In childhood infinite time is waiting and waiting and waiting for something to happen \u2013 when reaching the moment of the dripping ice cream cone takes one forever two forevers three forevers more \u2013 while in adult life there is the infinity between deciding to quit a job&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[208],"tags":[75,209],"class_list":["post-16932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-one-sentence-stories","tag-boudin","tag-onesentencestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16932"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17076,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16932\/revisions\/17076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}