Driving Home after Diagnosis
- Driving Home after Diagnosis
There is a woman throwing ashes out her back stoop onto the late February snow. There is a boy at the top of a seesaw, held there, as if unshatterable. Then a truck with aluminum racks passes me carrying enormous sheets of glass, tenuous as a filly’s fetlocks. Not five miles away a spring storm mounts, and all the leaves I’d collected for the fox den disintegrate just like that. [End Page 134]
Charlotte Matthews
Charlotte Matthews is the winner of the 2007 New Writers Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers, chosen by George Garrett. She is the author of two full-length collections of poetry, Still Enough to Be Dreaming and Green Stars. She teaches at the Jackson Center for Creative Writing at Hollins University.
