Divorce Car by Susan Hoffman

the judge signs the papers mother and children pack suitcases they leave town in a brand new car not an Oldsmobile 88 like the father owns but a turquoise and white two-door fifty-six Chevrolet steering wheel huge as a globe white sidewall tires rolling through red river dust toward the Four Corners the family never looks back not at the dog whining in the yard not at the man whose body already is being torn off photographs not at the town where people watch their leaving the divorce car crosses the Brazos River a hawk dives at a snake near the water and misses

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