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Edward Burtynsky, Highway #1, Intersection 105 & 110, Los Angeles, California, USA, 2003. Photograph ©2015 Edward Burtynsky
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Driving
About to step out of the sleeve of her body,
my mother wants to keep all of her clothes.
She thinks she’ll wear the fuchsia shirt again.
She says she wants to start driving. In truth,
she never liked to drive, pushing the wheel
one way or the other in tiny increments.
The speeds on the highway scared her.
-Jane Hilberry
First published in Wingbeats: Exercises and Practice in Poetry. Edited by Scott Wiggerman and David Meischen. Dos Gatos Press, 2011.
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