Sunday, May 30, 2004

Re-write of Drive (orig. post below)

Steer, Wheel


Mom.

/stop the car/

you said and I

pulled to the side I was

driving instead of you I was 12.
.



You told my brother to get out

get out he said no sat still

for the first time gripped the car

seat as if his knuckles could grow

roots.
.




It was the red car it was

the one I flipped down a hill later

that year.
.




David my brother.

Mom turned to you from the

backseat her face red her hair

distraught and you laughed

again.
.




How could you stop?

How could any of us,

stop?


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