2011 Issue - Santa Fe Community College
2011 Issue - Santa Fe Community College
2011 Issue - Santa Fe Community College
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Behind the Wheel<br />
by Linda Whittenberg<br />
We were lurching over rutted farm roads<br />
in the ’49 stick-shift Chevy.<br />
I even got a faint whiff<br />
of the earthy smell<br />
you carried on your boots.<br />
While I struggled with the clutch,<br />
you were laughing at my clumsy efforts.<br />
You’ll get the hang of it, you said,<br />
cheering me on,<br />
your large body heaving forward and back,<br />
head just missing the dash.<br />
Even then, tiny spider veins crawled on your face,<br />
arteries already slamming shut,<br />
your fragile heart ready to burst.<br />
Today, another chip in the cup of anger<br />
I’ve drunk from all these years,<br />
as I remembered you.<br />
40 <strong>Santa</strong> <strong>Fe</strong> Literary Review
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