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But also braille books, his adaptive computer and his cobalt blue Light-Touch Perkins Brailler — a nine-key typewriter, not unlike a court reporter’s stenotype machine, that many experts consider essential for a blind child to access literacy.

She came, as all her readers have noticed, from the Ozarks, the daughter of a judge and a court reporter whose stenotype’s imprint adorns the interior pages of her 1998 mostly-prose poem “Deepstep Come Shining.”

Brought up in a large unaestheticized house littered with Congressional Records and stenotype paper by a Chancery Judge and The Court’s hazel-eyed Reporter who took down his every word which was law.

I use a stenotype, or shorthand machine, connected to a computer that contains captioning software.

To bad his stenotype machine wasn’t connected to the Internet.