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  • Ancient Map
  • David Huddle (bio)

Your dad gets it free at a Gulf station   where from the car you hear Burt ask him where     he’s headed. When your dad says Gatlinburg       then Nag’s Head, Burt gives him a toothless grin.         Unfolding it he’s beseeching the god           of journeys for sweet weather, no flat tires             or car sick kids. Folding it up requires               all his patience and famously odd                 engineering skills. During your mom’s nap                   he misses a turn, gets lost, and must pull                     over and climb out to unfurl the whole                       thing spread across the hot car hood. O map                         traced by my father’s index finger, he                           doesn’t mean these curses. Please save our family. [End Page 13]

David Huddle

David Huddle is retired from a distinguished career as a Professor at the University of Vermont, and from post-retirement assignments at Hollins and Austin Peay Universities. He has published poems, short stories, novellas, novels, and essays and is working on what he hopes will be his twentieth book.

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