Your father drives silent and one-handed, crooked left elbow riding on
the window’s rim. Your mother picks skin from her cuticles. You and
your sister sprawl in the back seat like badly packed luggage, make
faces at the skein of cars unraveling behind you. In Michigan, roads
lead only to other roads: the same dotted white line, eternal border of
corn and cows. You drive and drive and are never there yet.
You eat lunch at a rickety picnic table near a hill in the road where
trucks grind by, farting exhaust. Your tuna sandwich tastes gassy;
your Dixie cup of lemonade is hot as pee. Flies helicopter over a
steaming pile of poop your parents pretend not to see. Your sister
whispers you’ll likely die from bad mayonnaise in an hour or so.
Hours later, your father drives silent and two-handed. Your mother
picks her lip. Your sister is asleep. You are not dead. You are not there
yet.
–Sarah Freligh,
A Brief Natural History of an American Girl
Accents Publishing
More from Sarah Freligh:
Sarah Freligh is the author of Sort of Gone (Turning Point Books, 2008). Her work has appeared in The Sun, Rattle, Brevity, Barn Owl Review, Cimarron Review, Iowa Woman, Third Coast, Tar River Poetry, and Painted Bride Quarterly and on Garrison Keillor’s “Writer’s Almanac.” Among her awards are a 2009 poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a poetry grant from the Constance Saltonstall Foundation in 2006, and an Artist’s Exchange grant from the New York State Council for the Arts in 1997. She is a visiting assistant professor of English and creative writing at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, New York.
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